Life — June 23, 1921 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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The Latest Books (Continued from page 914.) Yale so seriously. Mr. Minnigerode can hardly see for the tears when he begins to write about the last moments of his young heroes in New Haven, “And Angel shut his eyes, and put his and sang ‘ Toyland ’—once through very soft, and then with all the power of ing voice, re-echoing through the paces of the silent campus.” t seems to me that the campus would have been pretty sure to have done some- thing about it, but the author leaves that out [" is only fair to say that there are certain s ntal touches which cannot fail move even those readers who never to Yale and wouldn't under any cir- cumstances. Consider for instance, the chapter about the college parade which ends * The band would march to that spot, » with a flourish, and then disap- pear into the night in search of beer, their task accomplished.” Nowadays, one real- izes with a pang, their task would be just The Big Year” deals with the days ng before prohibition, when Yale had winning football teams. To be sure, there is scant necessity for a team in the story because Curly Corliss, the hero, does prac- tically all the work himself.“ Curly clap- ped his hands together and kept calling aut, “Never mind the signal! Give me the ball!” in his plaintive voice—and he made two touchdowns.’ The plaintive voice is a tradition still ained at Yale, but now it says, . “Moral victory.” R. MINNIGERODE seeks to justify the exceedingly reverent attitude to- ward all Yale activities which is con- ly maintained in his novel by mak- nost of the story filter through the ob- servation of a little New Haven newsboy, called Jimmy. It was Jimmy who rescued Champ, the football mascot, from under the wheels of anautomobile, and took him to the field just before the second half, thus inspiriting the team to crash out upon the ficld and snatch victory from defeat. In the end Jimmy has his reward, A alumnus promises to send him to For this touch Mr. Minnigerode es congratulations. He has at least avoided the usual happy ending. When You Are Really Wanted “They really must want us to go to r dinner.” Vhat makes you think so?” “They insist on our bringing the chil- dren too.”—Detroit Free Press. “Hetto, old top. New car?” “No! Old car, new top.” —Lafayette Lyre. Amazing difference in blades shown by this test stropped blade unstropped blade used over 30 days— used only 5 days— cuts hair at first touch catches and pulls hair aside IME after time the test shown above was repeated with the same result. Valet AutoStrop Razor blades used over 30 days made good. They had been stropped regularly. That meant comfortable, smooth shaves. Ordinary, unstropped blades, used only 5 days, failed. That meant they would “ pull" and scrape in shaving. The Valet AutoStrop Razor is made to strop itself. A fresh, keen edge in ten seconds morning after morning! Quick, easy, convenient. A year of smooth, cool shaves from the package of blades that comes with each set. Complete with razor, strop and 12 blades—$5. VALET AutoStrop Razor—*5* Sharpens itself—saves constant blade expense EGYPTIAN DEITIES “The Utmost in Ci Plain End or Cock Tp People of culture and refinement invariably PREFER Deities to any other cigarette comicbooks.com