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...apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener. A little uncertain about the I. Q. of his audience ever since one of his girls described a demitasse as a young lady ready to make her debut, Bartlett, who makes a hobby of collecting paperweights, haunts lawyers' offices, barbershops, funeral parlors in his off hours, as the best bets for adding to his collection...
...gathering darkness, it looked as if they passed the judges' float in a photo finish. But when the results were run up, Washington was declared the winner (for the third time in five years) by nearly half a length-with Syracuse third, Navy fourth and Princeton, making its debut in the Intercollegiate, eighth and last. To the victorious crew went added glory when it was learned that they had 1) rowed 2½ extra miles to the starting line earlier in the afternoon only to discover that, unbeknown to them, the race had been postponed; 2) rowed the last...
...orchestra, which will make its debut in Washington before embarking for South America in mid-July, Stokowski exclaimed: "I expected to find great talent, but I have found more and a higher type of talent than even I believed existed. . . . These musicians are of a musical quality that has not existed in previous generations in our country. A great flowering of Art is just beginning in America, and it is expressing itself first through Music...
When the sun had set that afternoon, the Dodgers were one up on the Reds. Luke Hamlin had pitched a two-hit shutout, had chalked up a 2-to-0 victory. But Brooklyn's cheers were all for swart, swaggering, 28-year-old Joe Medwick, who, in his debut with the Dodgers, had driven in one of their two runs...
...apprehensive English: "I walk through the streets and I do not see children and I do not miss them. I ask myself, why is this? And then I realize that the men have children's faces." A woman with a raft of friends, Diseuse Oswald got for her debut the sponsorship of such child-faced U. S. men as Malcolm Cowley, John Erskine, Langston Hughes...