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Learning tennis, at Piping Rock Club, L. I., the Pool brothers, Lawrence and Beekman, often tried the patience of their instructors; but they acquired the foundation for the squash rackets they learned later, at Harvard. At the National Squash Rackets tournament in Baltimore, last week, Lawrence Pool, defending champion, lost to T. E. Jansen Jr., of Boston, in the quarterfinals. Next day, Jansen played Younger Brother Beekman Pool who, still at Harvard and vastly improved in the last year, was at the top of his graceful, fast and brilliantly deceptive game. Pool won the first two sets...
...single cent for commissions or services, took its reward in a sense of civic duty well done. Temporarily rescued, Tammany's Walker remarked: "Talk about the market! My blood pressure dropped seven points today to 103, a new low!"* In Chicago where municipal credit has long been at rock bottom, financial relief also came into sight last week when the Illinois Legislature passed a bill to revamp Cook County's taxing machinery. A non-political taxing board, under this measure, will replace elective assessors whose lopsided and unfair assessments have been the root of Chicago...
...this week. In its flight the plane will accomplish, in unforeseen manner, the dream of Cecil John Rhodes. It was his ambition to see a British railway "from the Cape to Cairo." The railway is not yet finished. But the 18-passenger ship which crosses Rhodes's rock-hewn grave is the first of a weekly service of Imperial Airways connecting not only Cape & Cairo, but both of them with London and India...
...severely with them. . . . Their skeletons had virtually disintegrated during the many decades since they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint knife...
...alterations consist of removing various old partitions, some sinks, and some built-in cupboards in the section. New partitions of glass, sheet-rock, and wire grating are being installed in their place, which will divide the section up into four large rooms for laboratory use and the smaller offices...