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Died. James Stetson Metcalfe, 68, for 31 years dramatic editor of Life, then of Judge, then of the Wall Street Journal; in Manhattan. In 1906 he was barred from 47 theatres because of his criticisms. He took the matter through the courts, but the Court of Appeals upheld the managers. Subsequently a bill was passed at Albany making it a misdemeanor to refuse to sell a theatre ticket...
...either side of the French stadium, the white wall of the amphitheatre is low enough to let the beholder see over it into the still-smoking battlefields, seen as from a high hill in geographically exact detail. Within the wall, which is divided into panels by inscribed monuments, stand leading representatives of the Allied Nations, grouped on shallow steps, with each nation's name engraved on a smooth tablet...
Carrying one cold chicken, two gallons of tea and four tons of gasoline in a 700-horsepower Hawker-Horsley biplane, Lieutenants C. A. Carr and Lem M. S. Gillman hopped last week from Cranwell, England, bound for Karachi, India, 4,000 miles away. They missed the airdrome wall at the start by a few inches. Over Constantinople they were reported to be doing well. On leaving the Persian Gulf engine trouble developed. They were forced to descend into lukewarm waters, wrecking their Hawker-Horsley some 3,200 miles from home. Soon a ship rescued them, took them to Abadan, Persia...
...select rugs over the telephone to match a wall paper we have not seen. We place a contract for 10,000 tons of coal in the morning, and spend an hour over a pound of tacks to match a sample in the afternoon...
...crews competing in today's regatta drew lanes yesterday. Lane number one is nearest the Cambridge wall. The order of the races, with the lanes, is as follows, with the first race scheduled to begin at 3.30 o'clock, and the others following at approximately half-hour intervals...