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...Centre Hawkins had been injured. While standing on the sidelines, teammates had jokingly asked him if he were scouting the team for Notre Dame. Assistant Coach Gordon Campbell heard the jokes, took them seriously, suspected Centre Hawkins of disloyalty. Centre Hawkins had had to allow his home to be searched for "papers," had allowed himself to be held in custody by two private detectives in a cottage at Topango Canyon while the search was made. Finding the suspicions unjustified, Coach Howard Jones apologized to Centre Hawkins in the presence of the Southern California football team. This apology did not satisfy...
...plot involves the loss of the winning ticket in a lottery; and the frantic search through most of Paris for this bit of paper leads to many pleasant ramifications. Especially funny is the burlesque of grand opera, showing that the opera stages of France are burdened with no less clumsy pachyderms masquerading as young lovers, than...
...disorder was initiated without doubt by a militant minority of the right, whose lead was followed by listeners in search of diversion, who with true Gallic wit took pleasure in causing discomfiture to over serious and self-important pacifists. Yet it is also a sign of the overbearing attitude which most nations adopt when they find themselves in a position of supremacy. Kipling wrote his "Recessional" to moderate this spirit. The Germans earned the epithet of "Huns" by crudely and needlessly antagonizing civilized society when they were in the ascendancy. The French would do well to see that they...
Twenty-two years ago Professor Pickering first became aware of an immense heavenly body beyond the known superior planets. He knew that the object of his search was huge, thought he would call the planet Pluto when he was sure of its existence. When Lowell's Planet X came along and got that name, the putative Pickering planet was then called Planet...
...year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa...