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...week to pick up Station 5-CL at Adelaide. A little jazz, they thought, might assist digestion; and at worst there would be the weather report and a bedtime tale. Suddenly, as Station 5-CL came in on loud speakers and head phones, the digestion of numerous listeners was upset by a shock so powerful that Adam's apples bounded in male throats and robust women clutched at their hearts...
...Vanderbilt in 1896 were married under like circumstances, were forgiven by Mr. Vanderbilt's father only after an estrangment of several years; last week, vexed, they refused to endorse their daughter's action. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., famed journalist, brother of Mrs. Davis, explained she was not upset by her family's attitude, said: "She expected they would behave this...
...have taken the wash from a rival boat once this season. But the only victor over Harvard was the Annapolis eight, generally considered the strongest crew in the country, and the probable winner in the Poughkeepsie regatta Monday. Yale's colors were dipped only to Princeton in an amazing upset on Lake Carnegie, in which the over-confident Eli eight was caught napping. Both of the rivals have beaten Cornell and Pennsylvania; Harvard has defeated M. I. T. and Yale has taken Columbia's measure. So for the first time in many years the Thames classic will find...
...artistic sensibilities of Joseph Esposito, 14-year-old Italian of the Dore Elementary School in Chicago, were upset in his classroom by a chromo of George Washington. So he saved $85 by selling ice cream, privately commissioned an artist to copy the Stuart portrait of Washington which he had seen in the Chicago Art Institute. Last week he presented the oil painting to his school. He is behind in his studies, but he has given boards of education, throughout the land, something on which to ponder...
...first upset of the tournament came when 23-year-old Edwin H. Haley of Manhattan defeated the hard-driving favorite, Cyril Tolley, one up. But Haley's fame was shortlived, for up popped Dr. Harold D. Gillies, a physician for the King of England, a famed golf theorist who tees his ball almost a foot high, who uses a monster-headed driver, who has studied the function of every muscle, nerve and blood vessel necessary for club-swinging. Dr. Gillies' favorite stunt is driving balls neatly off perpendicular beer bottles...