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...Yale (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). This year, still Yale's greatest back, small Albert J. ("Albie") Booth is also Yale's captain. Although he has seldom been injured, and never seriously, he spends a good part of the time sitting on the bench, wearing an oversized woolen hood which makes him look like a gnome, while Yale's other able backs?Lassiter, Crowley, Heim?do most of the work. So far this season it has not been necessary for authorities to segregate Booth from curious sportswriters, for the Yale coaching staff to insist that Booth is "just another back...
...losses could not be deducted from his income. If he lost consistently, they explained, the money he lost must have come from other sources than the track, and therefore he must pay income on it. Lawyer Ahern deplored the "great public clamor" against Snorkey, called him a "mythical Robin Hood." Prosecutor Johnson indignantly insisted the Government was presenting the case with "high purpose...
...Leningrad), because his father ran a cotton mill there. The Gerhardi children were naturally polyglottal; they learned Russian and German from their nurses, French in school, English from their parents. Their Fraulein "used to take the five of us for walks and she dressed us so warmly, tying woolen hoods over our heads, that by the time the fifth was dressed and ready for an airing the first was nearly swooning, and either screamed hoarsely with resentment or choked in his padded coat and fur collar raised over the hood. As a result of this we always caught chills...
...Ventura, Calif, arrived an automobilist & family, asked H. A. Johnson, local Red Cross official, for gasoline money. Inquisitive Red Grossman Johnson lifted the engine hood of the automobile, found beneath it no motor. The automobilist explained that he had been towed all the way from New Hampshire. His method: in each town he would stop a motorist, tell him his car was broken down, ask for a tow to the next town where a relative would pay for repairs. Mr. Johnson withheld Red Cross aid. The motorless automobilist immediately got a tow to Santa Barbara...
From ship to ship the message passed, from the Rodney to the Nelson, the Hood, the Repulse, the York, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Warspite and Malaya. All eyes were on the Valiant. Would she obey orders? If she did it seemed certain that the rest of the fleet would follow. But on the Valiant boatswains piped themselves blue in the face. The crew remained below decks. Officers had an anxious huddle on the quarterdeck. Conscious that the eyes of Britain were on them, they attempted to hoist anchor themselves. Forward they found two pickets of thick-necked sailors standing guard over...