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Grand Duke Alexander found the Spanish royal family in the Hotel Savoy on the edge of the forest at Fontainebleau. The faithful Duke of Miranda led him first to the salon of ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie who was gracious and more than a little sorry for herself...
...male and a female of the shyest of all species of African antelopes, the Bongo, and a Giant Forest Hog, so large that it might be mistaken for a small rhinoceros, are the latest very valuable additions to the mammal collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The animals were shot by Frederick G. Carnochan '13 on a recent trip to East Africa...
...pair of horns of the male Bongo just received are among the finest in any collection. The animal is usually found in the dense forests of West Africa. These specimens are of the Eastern race which is confined to the highland forest areas of Kenya Colony. They have more massive horns than the West African race and the hide has a richer and brighter rufus color. The most characteristic things about these animals are the white cross stripes on the hide and the smooth, open, spiral form of the horns...
...Lake Forest home of William Hamilton Mitchell, wealthy Chicago investment banker (Mitchell, Hutchins & Co.), a group of socialites dined, among them Mrs. Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., Mr, 6 Mrs, William McCormick Blair, Mrs, Louise de Koven Bowen Phelps, Ralph Mines, About 11 p. m. five gunmen burst in but the guests, playing backgammon, were not perturbed. Austin H. Niblack had just gone home and this, they thought, was some practical joke of his. They changed their minds when the bandits began to collect jewelry. While the robbers were at work Chauffeur William Matheson slipped to a telephone, in a whisper...
Previous to his coming to Dartmouth, Schniebs had had considerable success in coaching the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Harvard Mountaineering Club. He hailed from the Black Forest region in Germany, and he was a famous skier of the Arlberg School. He had a lot of new ideas about skiing methods, and he proceeded at once to put them into effect. His Arlberg methods changed entirely the technique of skiing at Hanover...