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When Jackson Cannell came to town today he was met by Eddie Casey who said to him, "Well, you'll have to Hanover the game to me." To which Cannell replied, "Yudicky with me for this game? Barry Wood first and then I'll talk with you." After I overheard this bit of repartee between the coaches I decided that today's game would probably be a battle of wits. That will make prognostication a bit more difficult for any ordinary expert but not for me the Stage of the Age. I decree: Harvard 21, Dartmouth 10. Holy Cross...
...Author, Alfred Doblin, middle-aged Berlin physician, has set Germany talking with his big book. Europe has overheard: translations are appearing in Holland, France, Italy, Denmark. England. Alexander platz, Berlin is being cinematized, dramatized, recorded for radio. Author Doblin has written other (untranslated) books; Author Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Success), for one, says he has felt his influence...
...question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest, why don't yuh rubber da rag?'' Dr. Durston, on business somewhere in the background, overheard the remark, thought it apt. Next day every machine, desk, locker and press in the Standard office carried the words "Rubber da Rag" on neat white cards...
...bicycle had been stolen the night before. Irish detectives went to work. Suspicion veered toward young David O'Shea, another of Dairymaid Ellen's suitors. A Dublin sleuth slipped into David's little whitewashed hut and hid under a bed for many hours. There he overheard a whispered conversation between David O'Shea and his sister. Sister O'Shea went out of the cabin with a bucket containing one yellow woolen sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth. He searched the grounds and found parts of Ellen...
Only once since 1881 has Hero Parke figured in the public prints. In 1927 he overheard a Manhattan park employe using abusive language to some women. He intervened and after a long, much-publicized court fight, made the fellow publicly apologize...