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...years ago, bound for a meeting. Mrs. Tubman was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of Communists got on, lustily sang the "Internationale." Patriot Tubman flushed red, white & blue, burst into "The Star-Spangled Banner." As the angry Communists sang louder, she pitched her voice higher & higher. More Communists got on. Finally Mrs. Tubman had to get off to attend her meeting...
...morning in 1775 young Harrison Gray Otis, famed nephew of famed Patriot James Otis, found his way to school blocked by a column of British troops in marching order, ready to start for Lexington. Student Otis got to his desk just in time to hear Master Lovell, with vast relief, tell his unruly pupils: "War's begun and school's done. Deponite libros*." There was no more school until General Washington's guns blasted the British out of Boston...
Millis' fever chart of the U. S. war psychosis is carefully factual, but to unregenerate patriots it may seem pro-German, or at least anti-Ally. Says he: "The merits of the European struggle are beyond [the book's] scope, and it is no part of my purpose either to defend the German cause or to attack that of the Allies. Since it deals with an episode profoundly influenced by a passionate acceptance of the Entente case, much of it is necessarily devoted to a criticism of that case. . . ." Author Millis determinedly refrains from diagnosing the disease...
...Boston Marathon, its city's No. 1 sport event, is annually held on Patriot's Day. That Patriot's Day last week coincided with Good Friday served only to increase the excitement of the 500,000 enthusiasts who, as usual, lined the 26-mi. course from Hopkinton to Exeter Street. At Natick, one Mrs. Mary Bonfatti was so perturbed that she drove her automobile into two policemen. At Wellesley, students lined the streets, hooted or cheered contestants as they staggered past, 13 miles from the finish. At Auburndale, girl students of Lasell Junior College who were forbidden...
...year's favorites by finishing second last year, explained about himself. He is the oldest child in a family of ten sired by an Arlington (Mass.) letter-carrier. William J. Kelley, a marathon enthusiast, took young John Adelbert to see Frank Zuna wobble across he finish line on Patriot's Day in 1921. Favorably impressed, 13-year-old John Adelbert Kelley thereupon went into training which he has maintained ever since. He made a habit of going three miles to the movies for the sake of the run home. By the time he was in high school...