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...only last Thursday that the first meeting of the candidates was held, to which 60 men reported. At the initial practice yesterday 40 men turned out, and a scrimmage was held with the Winthrop House team, which, as the champion of the House Football League, is to play Vanderbilt College, the Yale Champions, here this Friday...
...making "skunkhunting" a title of honor. Felix Hebert hoped to be re-elected to the U. S. Senate, not as a Republican, not as a passionate music lover, but as a skunkhunter. Nonetheless Rhode Island turned to a onetime polo player and yachtsman, the present husband of George W. Vanderbilt's widow-Peter Goelet Gerry who served in the Senate from...
...cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, David Belasco were among his clientele. Prohibition nearly ruined Henri, drove him in disgust back to France. Repeal brought him back again. Last year he opened his present restaurant in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan...
...make her march between himself and the Mayor. At the War Memorial Building, Senator Long led the university's 125-piece band, made a speech expressing his thanks for the reception. During the game, he functioned as cheerleader. Just before it ended, he rushed across the field, while Vanderbilt's Dixon was punting, began yelping at Vanderbilt's Coach Dan McGugin...
When Louisiana had beaten Vanderbilt for the first time in its history by the convincing score of 29-to-0, Huey Long had expended so much energy that he was, for once, almost speechless. He puffed & panted: "We're-the greatest-team in the world. Anyone who-thinks we ain't-we plan-to meet...