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...last group photograph. Of its original 1929 members four were missing-War's Good, Treasury's Mellon. Commerce's Lamont, Labor's Davis. The President sat down, hunched up his left shoulder. Vice President Curtis and Secretary of the Treasury Mills swung right leg over left, Secretary of War Hurley, left leg over right. Camera shutters clucked. The Cabinet rarely looked more darkly dignified. Piped a photographer: "Can't you gentlemen please look a little more cheerful this time?" Laughter at such impertinence rippled through the group. All except Postmaster General Brown smiled. Shutters again...
...West Point, Ga., charged with the murder of Charlene Johnson by stabbing her in the leg artery with a penknife. Negro Joe Beasley was freed when he showed Judge Novatus L. Barker a broken fingernail. Playing the piano at a dance, Joe Beasley had broken the nail, taken out the penknife between dances to pare it. Pushed in the crowd. Charlene Johnson had bumped into the knife, stabbed herself...
...spent in Scotland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, France. Hampshire. His family moved to Oxford and he went to school there. At 13 he began a series of solo bicycle tours, made a large collection of brass-rubbings from old monuments in country churches. At 16 he broke a leg wrestling with another boy at school. He said nothing about it, rode home at the end of the day on a bicycle. He has never grown since. (He is 5 ft. 5½ in.) He took no interest in sports "because they were organized, because they had rules, because they...
...squad will hold dally practice in the baseball cage, chiefly leg and ankle strengthening exercises, and will get itself in condition by daily distance running. H.B. Washburn '83, acting captain of the squad is particularly anxious to get together a ski-jumping team, aspirants for which will be allowed to practice at the Braeburn Country Club Ski-jump...
...reach San Francisco at 6:30 a. m. the second day; or by switching off at Salt Lake City, land in Los Angeles about the same time. Advantage : loss of only one business day. Businessmen approve of the timing of the schedule's eastern leg. Midnight planes leaving either New York or Chicago land at the opposite port about...