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Warner, the football coach who for fourteen years had charge of Carlisle Indian elevens, and last week brought on the Leland Stanford team for its game with Dartmouth, in the Stadium, recently contributed to Collier's an article in which he tells some of his experiences with the Indian players. Naturally he pays attention to the trick Carlisle worked on Harvard in 1903, when Dillon, one of the Indians, hid the ball under the back of his jersey, and made a touchdown from the kickoff because the Harvard players could not tell where the ball...
...Collier's Weekly James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired pugilist, wrote about his spring visit to Russia. Excerpt: "One seemed to lose one's iden tity the moment the Russian border was crossed. You began to feel the meaning of: Oh, to be lord of one's self, unencumbered with a name...
...shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney) watches him taken to jail. She says good-bye to the young Jew (William Collier Jr.) who lives on the ground floor, packs her belongings in a suitcase, goes off down the street...
...with sleepy eyelids, confident, protruding underlip and well-defined paunch, he continued to be a familiar figure about training-camps, gymnasiums and other haunts of pugilists. Before every important fight he gave his expert opinion on who would win. In 1926 he allowed himself to be interviewed for Collier's. Said he: "My mother has pledged me against return to the ring. . . . They [promoters] know I've always kept my word. . . . I'll certainly keep it with my mother. . . . Unless you're a champion or a near champion, it's the dirtiest game...
Sirs: The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and frequently The Literary Digest print on front covers of their various issues their circulation. Never have I seen a report concerning TIME'S circulation. . . . As close as I have ever come to a good guess is a statement in your own advertisement, issue of June 15, p. 62: ". . . in 350,000 homes." Why not print, just for once, your circulation? ROBERT MILLER...