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Erect and alone, Cadet Parham approached "The Point's" vine-clad walls, walked through its arched entrance lugging a suitcase, wearing a dark suit, a grey cap. With 385 other cadets he presented himself at headquarters for the routine of enrollment. On his registration blank under "Father's Occupation" he wrote: "Nothing special." He took a bath, was given a close haircut, his undress uniform. His room was a single one in the south barracks. On the basis of height he was assigned to the Second Company where he got a place in the front rank. Late...
...since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, tanned, wearing a cinnamon suit and tie, was reinstalled in Manhattan last week as a director of National Surety Co., a position which he held for two years prior to 1922. He wandered about inquiringly, said: "I'm looking for the cigars. I won't be a director in any company where they don't keep the cigars on the table...
Bert Acosta, stunt flyer and playboy, was named correspondent in an uncontested divorce suit tried last week in Long Island City, L. I. Said Justice Norman S. Dike of the Queens County Supreme Court: "I have heard of Acosta as a daring aviator. I have also passed upon the amorous activities of Mr. Acosta in a previous case, . . when another divorce was secured, so I judge he is a most active man in other people's families when he is not aviating. It is about time he was eliminated from all public activities...
Besides his friend Miss Wills, the Bishop eyed and appraised the other seeded women players, Spain's dark and dashing Lili d'Alvarez who would like to play in a bathing suit; England's cheery, sandy-haired Eileen Bennett and determined, hard-driving Betty Nuthall; Mme. Renee Mathieu who is France's greatest woman amateur; Miss E. L. Heinie who lives and plays in South Africa; rosy Fraulein Aussem of Germany, and the other Californian Helen, Miss Jacobs, who strained her back a few days before the tournament but did not think it would bother her and between whom...