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...achieve a grace in waddling; almost none manage to run. In San Francisco a fortnight ago Miss Wanda Danley equaled the female world's record for a 100-yard dash ?11 2/5 seconds. This phenomenal pace could be equaled or eclipsed by almost any lean-shanked prep-school lad who is accounted a runner...
...silence, and save their wind for civic holidays, feasts of the church and times of national disaster. Magazine editors, moved by a similar but perhaps sincerer humility, often preserve the newspaper tradition of anonymity. But when a man achieves great eminence he shatters these conventions even as a growing lad might burst by stout activity the short breeches that fitted him so well a year before. So it is with Glenn Frank, onetime editor of the Century, newly chosen president of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, May 25). Last week in the Editor and Publisher, the name GLENN FRANK...
...little knot of people, perhaps 50 at most, gathered in the railway station at Brussels waiting for the departure of the Paris express. A tall elderly couple were about to take the train. The woman was talking to a lad who seemed to be her son and apparently giving him much good advice...
...voted the most popular lad in his class at a Manhattan public school. Some of his waggish friends commented upon the strangeness of his popularity, for he was known to be an inveterate blower of his own trumpet. But it was his skill upon this trumpet, the cornet, that was responsible for his popularity, for his later success...
Much political capital was made out of the death. Socialists were accused by their opponents of murdering the young lad during recent political riot. This was denied, but nothing could prevent the Pan-Germans and Catholic bourgeoisie from making the funeral into a political demonstration against the Jews and Social Democracy...