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...Cramer read the local papers, he would have seen that the sport writers here agreed with you that the Pitt team "had been badly outplayed all afternnoon by W. & J." No other estimate would be possible were one to compare the records of first-downs...
...affront the people of Pittsburgh with such unsightly aspersions as you cast on the Pitt Panthers after such noted and praiseworthy accomplishments ? We of the Pittsburgh district like our Pirates, our Panthers and our pugilists-point with pride to their accomplishments in the realm of sport, and distinctly view with alarm any attempt on TIME'S part to minimize Pitt's position in the football world...
...grim thing anyhow for a son to live in the shadow of his father's greatness. Only the very great shine through the umbra? Alexander, son of Philip; Alexander, fils de Dumas pere; William, son of the elder Pitt. But what was the waning fortune of the sons of Cromwell, Napolean, Caesar...
...world is used to heroes illustriously sired. "A chip of the old block," folk say of Pitt, the son of Pitt, of Dumas fils, of the young Adams, the young Hammond, the young Rockefeller. "Just like his father, only more so," said the ancients when Philip's son, Alexander, became tearful with success. But who was Cleopatra's daughter? What heroine did Dido mother? Joan of Arc, Queen Bess, Florence Nightingale, Jane Addams are all ineligible by hypothesis; and it is not recorded that Sarah Bernhardt had a daughter. But what of Portia and other married celebrities...
...FARINGTON DIARY, VOL. III*-Joseph Farington. Edited by James Greig - Doran ($7.50). If Joseph Farington was a mediocre artist, he at least excelled as a diarist. He seems to have known everybody worth knowing and his books teem with piquant anecdotes about Nelson, George III and IV, Pitt, Napoleon...