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During the last nine years the pair have made four trips into the plains and jungles of Africa. Previous of this they explored every island in the Southern Pacific, as well as Borneo; Mr. Johnson has calculated that of their 20 years of married life they have spent only three in civilization...
...remaining four members of the Harvard team have been in the matches to date, E. B. Ward '30, No. 3; R. L. Tower '31, No. 4; J. L. Ware 30, No. 5; F. K. Trask '30, No. 6. These men pair up for doubles as follows: Ward and Ingraham, No. 1, Whitbeck and Trask, No. 2. Tower and Ware, No. 3. Breese may be used either in the singles or in the doubles or even in both...
Identical twins, born of the same egg,* are seldom reared separately. Hence Horatio Hackett Newman, professor of zoology & embryology at the University of Chicago, rejoiced last week because he had such a pair under observation: two 19-year-old girls called discreetly A and O. They were born in London, lost their parents at 18 months. A's foster parents raised her in stodgy London, O's in a small Ontario town. Both received similar education. Recently A joined O. Theoretically and according to previous observations identical twins should be mirror images of each other (TIME, April...
Long one of the Treasury's best sleuths, favored by President Roosevelt as a bodyguard at Oyster Bay, Detective-Secretary Richey entered Herbert Hoover's service in Food Administration days. Bodyguarding long since ceased to be his sole function. He furnishes the Chief with a pair of extra ears as well as with vigilant eyes and brawn. When the President-Elect went to South America, Lawrence Richey was left behind to Hear Things...
This is a book of women: a pair of spinsters, puttering and snickering into their neighbors' affairs; a country school teacher, sparse and feline, who soured with envy and wrecked a petty vengeance; Grandma Truelove who dozed in her chair, scorning the eternal sewing and child-bearing of women; Cecily, her daughter-in-law, a wiry little soul so neat of body and mind that she dreaded the thought of Aunt Lotta Truelove, a creature of passions who had had three husbands and as many children but neglected them all for theosophy. Specifically, Cecily hated Lotta because Sophie, daughter...