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...four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar and then behind Stenroos, ahead of the straggling pack of 85 others-out through Natick, around through Wellesley, back through Auburndale, up and down through Newton Hills, where Johnny Miles began passing Stenroos and dropping back, passing him and dropping back, nine times, until once he passed him grinning and refused to drop back, but spurted on through Brookline, Coolidge Corner...
...another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient seat; after a premonitory groan, his brass assaults the tune. . . . The piccolo players, the drummer and the flute stroll in, smiling and chuckling; one of them is trying to get a pack of cards into his waistcoat pocket. Obviously a game of penny ante has delayed them. . . . Mr. Stokowski stops while the last of his audience parade down the aisle. . . . Haydn's "Farewell." The orchestra has played it better at other concerts. Some of the players seem merely indifferent, but several...
...etiquet of cutting is: Dealer places cards before the player on his right, who lifts off a top portion of the pack, placing it toward Dealer, who places the lower portion...
...Because the Locarno Pacts do not come into effect until Germany enters the League; and because Sir Austen is suspected of having secretly promised Premier Briand to help "pack" the League Council against Germany. As everyone knows, the ensuing squabble over Council seats resulted in the breakdown of the League session specially called to admit Germany and the postponement of the whole matter until the regular September League session...
...thermite procedure recently failed to break up an ice pack at Oil City...