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Joseph ("Joe") Sargent (Harvard, class of 1922) and Stuart Ross, a University of California graduate, had reached Vienna via vaudeville engagements in London and Berlin. Sargent sang while Ross played the piano. Sargent and Keller got married. The trio toured Europe, sang in cabarets, over the radio. In London where they had their greatest success, Greta Keller went daily to the talkies to perfect her English inflection...
...Japanese shouts of Banzai! ("May You Live 10,000 Years!") Japanese Chief Delegate Matsuoka sped by train to Paris, arrived there unable to make up his mind last week whether he ought to cross the Atlantic and "explain everything" to President Roosevelt or sail from Marseilles for Japan via the Suez Canal...
Launching a bitter attack with the invective "To Hell With Yale" setting the tone of the message, the Harvard "Yardcops" scored neatly on the Yale Campus Guardians via a lengthy collect telegram, declaring the local college policemen's claim to the Big Three basketball title false. No sooner had the smoke cleared from this vitriolic assault than a barrage (collect) was wired from Princeton claiming a misunderstanding of league agreements and dissension in the Campus Cop and Princeton Proctor's ranks. This does not augur well for Big Three relations...
Chief Robert C. Johnson and Officer Howard Ferguson of the Roanoke police stood secret watch near the stump, ceaselessly for six days & nights. They saw nothing. When they withdrew and Chief Johnson communicated with the extortionists, via the stump, as "John J. Jones," agent for Col. Lindbergh, answers came. By bargaining the tribute was cut from $50,000 to $25,000, to $17,000. A check for the latter amount was finally left in the stump and next day Joe Bryant presented it for payment at the Roanoke bank designated. His story when arrested was that he had "just happened...
...such substitutes as Poles, scorns South American recruits. On the eight men letters were found which solved the puzzle. With elaborate Latin courtesy a Buenos Aires white slaver wrote to his "forwarding agent" in Valparaiso that he had been unable to get any French or European women sent over via Panama to be forwarded via Chile. Apologetically the slaver asked his agent to stoop to recruiting Chilean women. "The prying activities of the League of Nations," he wrote plaintively, "have been giving us trouble...