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...date committee for the dance consists of Captain Gregory, Lt. Rose, Lt. Steed and the terrible three Lts. Stamm, Stark, and Stabler...
...fact is, this was a big week for the athletes. Besides baseball, a tennis tournament was in process. Already, there has been one upset. Lt. Stamm, a former champion at the University of Pennsylvania, was defeated by a comparatively unknown Lt. Stark 6-4, 6-0, 6-0. This was quite a surprise. Said Stamm after the defeat, "I was beaten fairly and squarely. I have no alibis, but it was the rubber program that best me--those damned reclaimed tennis balls...
...Stark Young takes a view of art which is wanning to those tired of abstruse and cerebral esthetics. Says he: "In my opinion a picture should be nostalgic with all we love and follow after in life; but ... it should have finally within it a calm and harmony as if it had arrived at a completeness in itself and its own peace." Young's work in no way suggested that he had been painting for only two years. His solid, slightly impressionistic flower pieces indicated close study of the still-life masters by a man who loves nature...
...Very Very Southern." Stark Young is known to his friends as an ardent garden er, a collector of objets d'art, "a character, " a wit and a superb teller of un printable stories. He was born in Como, Miss, in 1881. Papa Young was a doctor who, says Stark, would have preferred the role of Southern planter of which the Civil War deprived him. Mama Young was ''very very Scotch, and very very Southern." Stark Young, as his romanticism and rhetoric show, is pretty Southern him self...
...stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron, the M-3 is nevertheless rugged, light and easy to massproduce. It coughs out a clipful of .45-caliber pistol slugs, can be fired with fair accuracy at short range (as with any submachine gun, the closer the better). Of all-metal construction, the M-3 weighs less than nine pounds, compared to twelve for the famous Thompson "tommy-gun," a standard Army weapon whose relationship to the humble M3" is approximately that of a chronometer to a dollar watch. (Even in quantity production the Thompson gun costs about $40 to make...