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Captain Harvey Ross enters his match a decided favorite. Ross wrestled to a draw against his Navy opponent who in turn pinned Penn's Joe Sataloff. Still Ross is not likely to pin his opponent. "Chief" Boston is another man entering his match heavily favored over his opponent, and he stands a good chance of felling Bob Wolf. Boston's brand of hard, aggressive wrestling has left him undefeated so far this season...
...interior of France. Many of the troops found their own way of disposing of small arms. They shot their cartridges away at birds and tin cans, tossed their grenades into ditches in such numbers that many a French child was kept indoors lest he pick one up, pull the pin and kill himself...
Frederick Ecker saw nothing but good in this vastness. Slight, white-haired and precise at 71, he appeared in a natty pin-stripe suit, only a slight trembling in his hands showing his nervousness. When he went to work as a Metropolitan office-boy at $4 a week in 1883, a single investment of $10,000 was big stuff. In his grating voice, Witness Ecker remarked: "I have seen that grow to where ten million is only in the same proportion that the $10,000 was. . . . I haven't fixed in my mind any place at which it would...
...Picasso finally left the Bateau lavoir and the straight bohemian life. He now had money stowed away in his "strong box"-a large wallet kept in an inner pocket and fastened with a safety pin. He also had liver and stomach trouble that has persisted ever since. Moving into i studio apartment on the Boulevard de Clichy with at last some actual comfort, he worked furiously, with less gaiety, with a beginning of the bitter, abstracted air which characterized him later. In 1912 he moved to Montparnasse. In 1914, saddened by the departure of most of his riends...
...sexes or the eternal Harvard-Radcliffe battle for supremacy in all walks of life now appears on the bowling alley with four female pin slaughterers, taking the initiative by challenging all Harvard comers...