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...Mal Ball, who last year forsook Brunonia's halls to make his way in Hollywood, is back and is playing his end position as of old. Ball is the best pass-receiver on the squad and is poison down the field under punts. Babe Summerfield, lightweight veteran, or Ed Taft, the Georgia Peach, who has been making a sensational bid for starting honors since his conversion from the backfield, will hold down the other...
Flying the mail out of St. Paul one night four years ago, Pilot Mal Bryan Freeburg of Northwest Airlines spied a flaming railroad trestle, flagged a crack passenger express to a stop with his emergency landing flares, saved many a life including that of Golfer Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr. For that feat he received a gold watch from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., $100 from the Chicago Daily News...
Toward 4 a. m. things began popping in the uncarpeted downstairs bedroom where Elzire Dionne lay. "Ça me fait mal," she wept. Ovila Dionne surmised that his wife was complaining about the swelling of her legs. But the goodwives knew that Elzire Dionne was on the verge of bearing her seventh child, perhaps twins. They dispatched Ovila down the rocky, forest-edged road to Dr. Dafoe's, placed kettles and pots of water to boil, laid out clean towels and a bottle of olive oil on the new bedroom bureau, lined a wicker clothesbasket with pads and sheets...
...bands, including 32 pieces, will stage a "Battle of Music" playing from alternate ends of the hall. Pete Herman, the famous "Dog House Slapper," who has played with Mal Hallett and Casa Loma, will be on hand to carry on with his baby bass-viol; Lew Conrad will be crooning the latest hits from the Scandals, the Follies, and all the bigtown shows; Marshard's great aerialminded planist will be doing tailspins all over the key boards...
...willing to be fair, I think you will admit that in a short time the examinations will be looked forward to with great eagerness--men will compete hotly for the honor of representing their departments, and what is now regarded with a bit of mal de mer, will be looked on, to use Dwight Fiske's immortal word...