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...more important National intercollegiate glee club contest, which I heard here in Chicago? Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan, Wabash, Knox, Notre Dame, Grinnell and Milliken sang, and sang beautifully. Why the winners of the eastern contest were not there to pit themselves against our melodious Northwestern, I cannot guess. Northwestern won, with Illinois and Iowa tied for second and Purdue third. TIME-would have had something to say if it had only heard those boys sing Schumann's Lotus Flower...
...canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday interest in the Panama Canal with the facts that Navy officers have declared the canal indefensible in time of war a,nd the rumored plans of a new canal through Nicaragua where Adolfo Diaz sits in the U. S.-protected president...
...other newspapers at $50,000,000. It is hard to price his vast holdings in Mexican realty, but $10,000,000 would not be overrating them. And much property in California and elsewhere must be added. Shrinking the total to be thoroughly conservative, a guesser might safely guess that Mr. Hearst is worth...
Certainly no businessman, no bull or bear on the stock exchange would have been shrewd enough to guess that the Magazine of Wall Street, for the last 16 years, has been the work of a woman who once wanted to be a prima donna. Mrs. Wyckoff lives at Great Neck, L. I., has two daughters, wears flowers as big as her face, and is as energetic in her office as an outfielder on a windy...
...newspaper headlines throughout the country, the name Baumes had been rising to new prominence. Who, what it is-trade mark, symbol, place-many people can only guess. But in the New York Senate they know what lies behind the name: it is a man. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, short, sparse, with drooped moustache and thin white hair, sponsored the Baumes laws, sputtered and spumed "mawkish sentiment" at critics who called them cruel, lived to see his name rise to a disembodied symbol of "punishment to fit the crime...