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...Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory by their original owner, a string looping their spool-like bases would have made them do an about-face or a full pirouette in unison. Carved with great delicacy, the four figures had an animation of posture and facial expression which moved Dr. Lansing to pronounce them unique in Egyptian art. Furthermore he thought they were...
Patient on his haunches sat Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen until Etcher West tossed him a rubber mouse. To the mouse was attached a string which was attached to a curtain which was attached to an easel. Passionately the poodle pounced on the mouse, pulled the string, drew the curtain and unveiled a first proof of Etcher West's latest work: a portrait of Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen...
...Advertising space in News Of The World costs $11,000 a page.* To this extremely profitable publishing property, Lord Riddell added Strand Magazine, Country Life, a string of small provincial dailies. Almost austere in his personal habits, he never smoked or drank. His frailty, however, did not prevent him from doing prodigious amounts of work. His hands full with his own and the nation's business, he nevertheless kept an "inside story" diary of the War years, the third volume of which appeared this autumn. Intimate as this book is, many passages were omitted by Lord Riddell as "unsuitable...
...football season of 1934. Knox College of Galesburg, Ill., lost eight games without scoring a point, ran its string of consecutive defeats up to 27.* When he resigned last week. Coach Lloyd Burdick, who lost 27 lb. during the season, gave his explanation: ''They did the best they could but the material wasn't there. . . . I will always remember every fellow who played on the 1934 Knox team as hard workers. . . . Nine of the regulars didn't even have any high-school football experience. . . . I'll never forget the day one of our little fellows...
Coach Fesler will start Jim Grady, eagle-eyed forward, Ernest A. Gray, Jr., lengthy center, and Captain Dick Boys as his first-string offensive combination. Dick Fletcher and Charles Kollinites are Fesler's choices in the guard positions...