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Winthrop's crew, stroked by Dave Shepard, lists Dave Stiles at seven, Bill Rechier at six, Pierce Butler at five, Lyman Burbank at four, Leo Randol at three, Bill Fletcher at two, Eric Clark at one, and Berb Barrett...
Less excitable readers found it easy to keep off the floor, catalogued The Flying Yorkshireman as consisting of: 1) a fantasy by Eric Knight about a man who discovered he could fly, amusing but stretched thin; 2) a sentimental story by Helen Hull about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood...
Entire inadequacy of slab artists in the face of heavy sluggers, batters as clay in the hands of stellar pitchers, and an all around exhibition of mental and physical weakness, such as Soldiers Field has not seen since the days of Eric the Red, brought expected defeat to the Lampoon hosts yestere...
Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, was busy inside the Chigi Palace (Foreign Office) signing the Mussolini-Chamberlain pact, text of which came out fortnight ago, with the British Ambassador Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was for 14 years Secretary General to the League of Nations. Unheralded, there was also signed at the same time last week, by Count Ciano, Lord Perth and Egyptian Minister Mustafa El-Sadek Bey, an Italo-British-Egyptian "good-neighbor pact...
...weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori, Mountaineer Tilman admits that he and his companion, Eric Shipton, lost their way, their tempers, and almost their lives-in addition to which he dropped his camera, broke his wrist watch, while Shipton sprained his shoulder hanging onto shrubs on a convex slope...