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While gathering brushwood for a fire to keep off the packs of wild dogs that roam the former site of London, an archeologist of the Royal Society of Abyssinia found an ancient, 20th-century thermos bottle. In the bottle was the Hopkins Manuscript. Since the damp climate of the British Isles rotted all books and papers, practically the only other records of the white man's glory known to the vigorous civilizations of the East were a rusty iron tablet (when deciphered, it read: Keep Off the Grass) and an oblong stone (it was believed to read: Peckham...
Sport-loving are the Kings of Iraq. Ghazi I (killed last April in a motor crash) was a passionate follower of the horses. Last week his four-year-old son, King Feisal II, took up the ancient & honorable game of golf...
...deal was ancient financial history in 1936 when stockholders sued, claiming that the profit rightfully belonged to the company, not the directors in the syndicate. The members of the syndicate replied that the corporation neither wanted the stock nor was in a position to buy it and that the syndicate bought it to protect the corporation from Mr. Markle. Nonetheless, bushy-haired Justice Ferdinand Pecora returned a thumping judgment against Morris & friends for $443,202, including interest. Last week, Justice Pecora's judgment having been reversed on the first appeal, New York's Court of Appeals (last resort...
...Andrews, royal & ancient cradle of golf, only three U. S. golfers were among the 240 who teed up their balls last week in the 74th British Open, world's No. 1 golf tournament. But when the field narrowed down to two, one of the finalists was an American: big Johnny Bulla, a Chicago pro who was playing in his first British tournament. After finishing his last round in 73 for a 72-hole total of 292, it looked as if an American would once again win the Open. But while Johnny Bulla fidgeted in the clubhouse...
Decade ago Manhattan Publicity Counselor Harry Bruno attended an airmen's wine & dine shindig, cracked that he thought fliers were strong, silent, quiet birdmen. Result: "The Ancient & Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen," with such noted members as Charles Lindbergh, Roscoe Turner, the late Wiley Post. Qualifications: good flying, good fellowship. Chief function: convivial hell-raising...