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...well as the bridge expert, there are thrills aplenty in the daily reports of progress wholly apart from the cards and skill in handling them. In the ninety-seventh rubber or thereabouts, for instance, Mr. Culbertson threw down his hand with words which even kibitzers lack the temerity to repeat, and remarked that he "refused to play another card until Hal Sims had removed his big feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband had encountered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOUT POUR LE SPORT | 4/12/1935 | See Source »

...Primate Diaz, when arrested, had a bagful of small coins he had collected for administering confirmation to children at 75 centavos (21?) each outside his district. The Primate, according to the Government, signed an admission that by officiating out of bounds he had violated Mexican law, promised not to repeat the offense and was subjected to a fine of 100 pesos ($27.75), "payable at his convenience." Last week His Grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plenty of Priests | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...unheated room, offered nude photographs of her to his friends as souvenirs. Two years ago he married an extremely pretty girl of 21. When he was younger he practiced acrobatics until he became expert, haunted vaudeville theatres, performed somersaults in theatre lobbies, went home to try to repeat the stunts he had seen on the stage. Once he spent the night with a one-eyed Civil War veteran sitting on the 3-ft. hat brim of the 37-ft. statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia's City Hall. Just before dawn the oldster slipped off into the Founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: One of Eight | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Expecting to repeat their Carnival victory, the Crimson hockey team will meet the Dartmouth sextet in the Arena tomorrow evening. Although the Indians held Yale to a 4-5 score, the Harvard record is much better throughout the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN SEXTET TO FACE FAVORED CRIMSON MEN | 2/21/1935 | See Source »

...comment, first, ". . . its members are in danger of losing their sense of humor", and last, "What America needs is to be laughed at. . ." . And in the middle, you oracularly assert, "A University is an institution for detached, impartial study of the arts and sciences, contemporary and modern." I repeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "God" | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

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