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...other of massing troops on the Macedonian border and contemplating acquisition because of the internal turmoil in Greece. With loyal and rebel forces quite evenly matched, although the former is dominant on land and the latter is superior at sea, the probability that they both have designs on war-ridden Greece amounts almost to a certainty...
...horizon. A brilliant writer, he is no worker in enamel. His rare epigrams ("Youth is a religion which, in the long run, a man has always to retract") are the only tricolorations in his style. The world he writes of, in terms of savagery, torture, bloodshed, is too death-ridden to be neat...
Coming up from the Jayvees of last year, to undertake the difficult job of replacing Al Dillingham, Harvard's long range goal maker who graduated last June, Peter Jay has ridden into the number two position for an apparently permanent stay. Hampered early this winter by a tender knee, and riding through all the games with the joint well padded, Jay has nevertheless managed to make himself formidable to his opponents. He sustained another injury to the same leg, and will be out of the last Commonwealth Polo Association game before the team goes on the read to West Point...
...escape for censor-ridden Bostonians and exam-ridden students, the producers of O'Casey's play have arranged for a $16.50 all expense trip to New York City which includes a round-trip railroad-fare, accommodations at the Hotel Lincoln for Saturday night, and an orchestra seat in the National Theatre. The streamlined "Within the Gates" Special leaves the South Stations about noon Saturday, and returns from New York about midnight Sunday. As an added inducement, a diner has been added to the train for lunch...
...debt-ridden New York City last week, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick had the painful duty of explaining how the new municipal sales tax would work: 2% on all retail sales except food, prescribed drugs, newspapers and periodicals. To be raised was some $40,000,000 which would help pay banks for advances for jobless relief. New York's sales tax was notification that the desperate city had come to the end of its tax tether...