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Baby buggies are in the sporting spotlight of England. Mrs. Lilly Groom, of Eastbourne, Brighton, took the perambulator propulsion title, doing 52 miles from London to Brighton in 12 hours and 20 minutes. Her baby slept peacefully most...
...stage will not be lighted in the usual way by footlights and overheads, but by spotlights placed behind the proscenium. This system of lighting has been effectively used in the production of "Back to Methuselah" by the Theatre Guild of New York City. The Dramatic Club, however, will be able to use this system much more effectively because of the recent invention of a spotlight which covers a larger area, and is easier to direct. A new color method, which uses silk instead of gelatine plates in the light, will also be used...
...victory by thrashing the "Jayhawk" again. Of a certainly the football capital of these United States is a wandering one. It is no longer nailed down east of the Alleghenies, as it used to be in the comfortable olden time, 'when a half-dozen big Eastern teams held the spotlight year after year and ruled the Gridiron Empire unchallenged. However, it still is the ambition of every good team in the country to beat Yale or Harvard or Princeton and the others of the great teams whose shadow once fell so far across the autumn fields. Therefore...
...movement for conducting such groups at Harvard was first started in the spring of 1918 and with the enthusiastic support of President Lowell five groups were launched. Within 24 hours, over 200 men signed up, thus calling for the formation of several new groups. Since then the spotlight that the war threw on political and economic questions has been turned off and interest has seemingly died out with it. During the next two years similar series of groups were conducted with less success...
...election receipts and expenditures, should be immediately exacted. The light of "pitiless publicity' may prove rather glaring to some of the candidates, and their "angels" before the moving van backs up to the White House door on March fourth next. It everyone realized that henceforth the spotlight was going to shine relentlessly on the actors in every Presidential drama, in all probability both the contributions and expenses would in the future be more modest, and the menace of "money in politics" be averted...