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...Oxford-Cambridge meet, scheduled for the latter half of this month and the first of July. Somewhat hampered by the exam period, three of the squad entered the Massachusetts State Championship tournament at Longwood. W. E. Arensberg '33 is still playing in this tournament, although J. F. Ray '33 and G. H. Hartford, II '34 have been eliminated. These three men, together with S. E. Davenport, III '34, who has played in number one position all spring, have been selected by Cowles to make up the four-man team which will represent Harvard this summer...
Senator after Senator leaped to his feet to describe how the President's decree caused suffering and destitution among disabled veterans. West Virginia's Hatfield, a physician, produced an x-ray picture of a man whose thigh had been shot away and whose spine was full of shrapnel splinters. "A hopeless cripple," pronounced Dr. Hatfield, "and his allowance is to be cut from $120 to $80 per month." Pennsylvania's Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest...
...Reporter Ray Tucker, wild & wooly go-getter after official malfeasance or social injustice, was never in better form. 'The days of Teapot Dome never compared with these," he reported. And "the question [of the man on the street] heard everywhere around the Capitol is, 'What chance have we got?' " Pitched to a sustained keynote of Wall Street wickedness. Tucker's stories were masterfully written and made exciting reading. Also in the World Telegram, Pinko Heywood Broun surpassed himself with cynical skits about the House of Morgan and its Friends in high places. Apropos the 1929 letter...
...Washington, D. C. "Slim" Jones, holder of the world's record for being buried alive (38 days), turned over in his coffin, picked up his telephone, asked for long distance, chatted with Ray Richards, buried alive near a hot dog stand in Denville, N. J. Jones told Richards that his grave was in the bed of a dried-up stream, that heavy rains threatened to wash him out, that he intended to stay underground 40 days if he could. Richards told Jones that bandits came to his grave, tried to steal the day's cash receipts, threw burning...
Doubles--Davenport and Ray defeated Moorhead and Miles (Y), 8-6, 5-7, 6-4; Hastings and Cobb (Y) defeated J. B. Wilkinson '35 and Arensberg, 6-1, 6-2; Mundy and Bassford (Y) defeated S. G. Haskins '35 and G. B. Sykes '33, 6-4, 6-2; Whitbeck and Ingalis defeated Hamilton and Hill (Y), 4-6, 8-6, 6-0; Wardman and Carlisle (Y), defeated Ian Baldwin '33 and J. K. Mitchell...