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...existence as the greatest Senior under the elms; there were only the dud explosions of the professional reformers or the envious non-quites to cry down an antique custom. Conditions charged in the next couple of decades, but yet it fell to the Junior Fraternities to take the blame. Tap Day might be a deadly twenty-four hours, but it came in the spring, when one reads of Blue teams only on page ten; the lesser elections blossom perversely in the antumn, and that is the time when football, and only football, should all the mind. Down came...
...last week, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's South Pole Expedition started from that port for a year and a half in Antarctica. He, his scientists and able seamen were aboard the bark City of New York. There was no breeze flirting down Dunedin's forested mountains to tap-tap her sails; so her mateship the steamer Eleanor Boiling hauled her down the narrow Otago Inlet like a puffing rustic leading his wench through a lane...
...closes at 384. It was 349 on Wednesday morning. . . . What is happening to Radio? Climbing whole points at a time, Radio soars from 234½ to an incredible 270. Who is pushing it? No one knows, and it suddenly tumbles back to 252, where it rests perilously at the tap of the final gong. General Motors lags, closes ¾ off, in spite of its new 150% stock dividend. Why? Perhaps too many shares for the pools to handle. General Electric gains 83½ points, keeps them. . . . Railroads are strong, may become market leaders when coppers and oils yield. Friday...
Married. Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), famed mammy songster; and Ruby Keeler, tap dancer; in Port Chester...
...Ruby Keeler, earnest, elbowed tap dancer, was discovered by Tex Guinan, and danced at El Fay, onetime Guinan night club...