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...continental U.S., plus some 14,000 Puerto Rican recruits who had been taken into expanded Regular Army units, or into two Puerto Rican National Guard regiments. All the Puerto Ricans were volunteers. To miserable, jobless and underpaid natives from San Juan's hellish slums, or from the poverty-ridden countryside, the Army's $21 a month looked like a fortune. These unfortunates, underfed, underbred, did the best they could in U.S. uniforms. They would have done a little better if they had had more U.S. equipment. Mixing them in with regulars from the mainland did nothing to improve...
While the Varsity is struggling through its firs official contest in the Stadium, newly-elected Captain Bill Palson takes his pro-ridden Freshmen to Andover for a triangular encounter with the Dartmouth Yearlings and the Blue home force. In the indoor meeting of these squads last winter, Andover finished ahead of the Yardlings and Greenlings in that order...
...just to make a race of it: Valdina Paul and Valdina Groom, two of Texan Emerson Woodward's herd, all named Valdina Something-or-other, that have invaded U.S. tracks this year. But from the flag's fall it was a two-horse race. Our Boots was ridden by little Conn McCreary, who is so small he looks like a pussycat on a horse. Puss McCreary acted like a wise old cat. Leading from the start, he eased Our Boots in the backstretch, let Whirlaway get in front. Then, rounding the home turn, Puss and Boots shot past...
Last week, as it does with most mugs, the law had caught up with one of the tough taipans of the Shanghai underworld. On his way to the U.S. and a Federal penitentiary was Edward Thomas Riley, otherwise known as "Jackpot Riley" and "Slot Machine Riley," who had ridden high for a decade, for four years had been the Mr. Big of Shanghai gambling...
When it was founded in 1917 the Society of Independent Artists did more than any other U.S. organization to break the stodgy, stale tobacco-juice-landscape and frock-coat-portrait traditions that had clung to U.S. art since the late 19th Century. In those Academy-ridden days, the Indépendents' free-for-all (patterned after Paris' famed Salon des Indépendents) offered artists with new ideas their one big chance. Many exhibitors at the early Independents shows later became famed figures in the U.S. art world. As the years went by, as modernism changed from...