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Trailing until the last session, the Harvard bridge team came through to take the final match by a perfect hand to win the intercollegiate contract bridge tournament held Friday and Saturday evenings in the Whitney Bridge Club at New Haven, Connecticut. The Crimson gained 18 points and Princeton 16 points...
...Barter blossomed. In Ashtabula a newspaper offered to print free advertisements of goods for swapping. Two commodity exchanges in Milwaukee found long lines of would-be customers waiting on their doorsteps the morning after the Wisconsin holiday went into effect. A wrestler signed a contract for a match with any opponent accepting as payment a can of tomatoes and a peck of potatoes. In Manhattan, admission to a Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament could be had for cigars, combs, soap, chisels, groceries, kettles-anything worth 50?, plus 5? cash for taxes...
Meanwhile Postmaster General Brown, advocate of airline monopolies, had been urging E. A. T. to buy out Ludington. Negotiations last year got nowhere. Finally, the story goes, the Postmaster General threatened to give Ludington a mail contract unless E. A. T. bought. E. A. T. bought last week, announced it would maintain all Ludington schedules except Washington-Norfolk, which E. A. T. already served. Thus passed, as Cord's Century Lines passed a year ago, another of the "independents" into the Big Four of U. S. airlines...
...which have existed up till now be corrected. House masters must no longer even unconsciously lure Freshmen in under the delusion that they may have the choice of a better and perhaps cheaper room the next year. Students should not be drawn into what is practically a three year contract for rooms they cannot afford to inhabit more than one season. In all fairness the House masters must make the actual situation clear to all applicants for rooms...
...August for a new model. His two younger sons take to railroading, but his eldest is determined to be a singer. Railroader Atterbury once remarked: "If you become the greatest musician in the world, what of it?" He reads very light novels, likes duckshooting, plays his own rules at contract with a stern righteousness and no little success. While working he smokes endless cigarets, whistles most of the time. Once on the coast of Alaska his 110-ft. yacht was boarded by revenue agents who seized his stock of rye whiskey and champagne. General Atterbury fumed...