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...spite of the unfavorable reports that have gained wide publicity in the United States, people are still leaving this country to join the Kuzbas colony. In a farewell celebration in Manhattan for 24 men and women who have just sailed for Siberia, moving pictures of Kuzbas were shown in which the colony was represented in a most favorable light. The audience, composed of East Side workers and uptown " liberals " cheered the pictures of model houses, vegetable gardens and smiling colonists, even " Big Bill " Haywood himself. Speakers denounced the newspaper exposure of Kuzbas as a " tissue of bourgeois lies...
...according to publishers, there is both a crying need for and a wide opportunity open to a writer for boys who possesses a little more than the usual bag of tricks. The audience is immense and vastly eager-it does not require the skill of a Conrad to move its members. Only deliberate affectation or tediousness they will not tolerate-and in those respects they are extremely hard to fool...
...Country-wide interest was aroused. The machine was awaited all along its route through Dayton, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Tecumcari, N. M., and Wickenburg, Ariz. A hundred thousand people met them at San Diego, and telegrams of congratulation by the hundred, beginning with one from the President, poured in from every state in the Union...
...last two years, Andover teams have carried off the trophy, both times winning by a wide margin from Exeter and Worcester, the latter placing second and third. Again this year, Andover, with 40 entries, leads the schools in the number of competitors, Exeter coming next in order with 24. Worcester, Brockton High, Huntngton, and Lynn Classical High follow in regard to the size of their representation...
Ford has shown up particularly well on the mound for the visitors, for besides a deceptive change in pace, he has a wide break on his curve. At the bat also, he is very strong, having registered four hits against Choate out of four times at bat, and he scored two hits out of two times at bat in the Second team game...