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...Vagabond is a true vagabond, and therefore he crept from his retreat in Memorial Tower last night, and avoiding the few straggling Freshmen vainly trying to register an hour too late, sped his way to the late lamented Union. He gorged himself well on the fare intended only for the newcomers, carefully avoiding the recognizing eye of his friend, the Adviser in religion. Then he settled himself comfortably in a soft spot to enjoy the fumes of Benson and Hedges, lulled into absent dreams by the pleasant voices of the speakers...
Diminutive Jimmy Haizlip swooped across the Cleveland finish line to win the Bendix prize, then sped on for a coast-to-coast record. When he set his little plane down on Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., he had spanned the Continent in 10 hr. 19 min., nearly an hour faster than Major Doolittle's 1931 record. No sooner had Jimmy Haizlip landed than Roscoe Turner roared down on the field, 39 min. behind but still far ahead of the Doolittle time...
...drove the car with the white rat somewhere inside. Sometimes it would come out in the tonneau, frisking over the seats. Once it appeared on the hood, dashed across the windshield. Finally, one day, Mr. Baldwin drove over a bumpy road. Out fell the rat. Mr. Baldwin sped away, last saw the rat running after...
...heat meant nothing to a veteran of Moroccan campaigns, swart General Jose Sanjurjo,* good friend of the late Dictator Primo De Rivera and of exiled King Alfonso, whom he faintly, fatly resembles. "Just the time for a coup d'état," he chuckled to himself as he sped south from Madrid one torrid night. Next day Sevillanos on their way to lunch heard the clatter of hoofs, the tramp of feet, much blowing of bugles in the broad Plaza de Espana. There they found General Sanjurjo on horseback before the city hall. Behind him was a column of Civil...
...Holman, fulminating about a "dastardly frame-up ... a piece of savagery" sped to Winston-Salem to fight for his daughter's freedom. But Mrs. Reynolds did not immediately appear to answer the charge. She was. her father said, in seclusion recovering from shock. Four days after her indictment she gave herself up at tiny Wentworth, N. C., 40 mi. from Winston-Salem. On hand to greet her were her attorneys and the State solicitor. She wore a heavy black veil, was accompanied by a nurse. Taken into court, Mrs. Reynolds was released on $25.000 bail with the consent...