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...smashing victory over a perennially victorious track team, the Freshmen beat Andover 79 to 46 at Andover Saturday. Wins were attained by Jim Lightbody in the 220 and 440, Ed Childs in the half, Pen Tuttle in the mile, Downing in the shot, Ed Ford in the javelin, Shallow in the hammer, Hollands in the broad jump, a triple tie among Aertson, Ford, and MacIsaac in the pole vault...
British police who have spent the past year vainly trying to keep Palestine's Jews and Arabs from each other's throats were faced with a new poser last week. In a shallow grave in an orange grove near Tel Aviv was discovered the moldering body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet Vice-Commissar of Harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house...
...editor with no inconsistencies is either a stuffed-shirt or a liar. In current footnotes he points out some of his own. He thinks he used to be too noisy boosting the wonders of Emporia and Kansas. He is "ashamed" that he called Bryan "a shallow fellow," and Socialist Eugene V. Debs "a charlatan," blushes over his flag-waving editorials during the Spanish-American and World Wars, would take back if he could an editorial upholding the guilt of Sacco & Vanzetti, "whose execution was a crime for which America lost prestige in the eyes of millions." But he makes...
When the results were incorporated in a graph showing the relation of spinster emotionality to age, the line rose from a low level at the tender age of 15 to a peak at 25. This was followed by a shallow dip at age 30 and another peak at 35. Then came a dip of placidity, with its lowest point at age 45, then a climb reaching the highest peak of all at 60. Author's explanation : "We may perhaps think of the two rises in the curve as associated respectively with increasing tension from the life-problems of sexual...
...Symphony and was quickly snapped up by the opera. Her debut as Manon was a triumph of personality as well as art. The little Brazilian used her little voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love so as not to ruin him. She sang the difficult display-piece Sempre Libera with uncommon charm...