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Manuel Quezon, 65, first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, lay in a log house at Saranac Lake, N.Y. He was listening: his physician was reading aloud from the Sermon on the Mount. Tuberculosis had almost conquered his fighting-bantam little body. But he did not believe he could die when the sun was shining, and now it was bright morning. After a while he asked that the radio be turned on. The news: U.S. troops had landed at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Manuel Quezon, who had dreamed of re-entering Manila with General MacArthur, exclaimed: "Just 600 miles!" Then...
...farm bloc within the Canadian Cabinet, bantam-sized Agriculture Minister James Garfield Gardiner, proved his shrewdness and power again last week...
...Braced itself for another session of filibustering by Mississippi's bantam, bombastic Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, as both House and Senate Judiciary Committees approved another anti-poll-tax bill. "The Man" assured the Senate that there would be "free and unlimited coinage of words...
Writing books on boxing is a habit with Nat Fleischer. The life story of Terry McGovern, who ruled the bantam and featherweight classes in 1899 and 1900 respectively, is his 39th. His previous 38 have sold more than 1,000,000 copies, How to Box and Training for Boxers together sold 200,000 copies. Nat Fleischer's All-Time Ring Record Book is a model of accuracy and completeness...
...active duty so he could resume his job of learning how to run the empire. Six days a week he gets up at 6 a.m., is at the Rouge plant by 8. There, under the wing of Ford's right-hand man, aide-de-camp, shadow and bodyguard, bantam-sized Harry Bennett, young Henry is learning his job. He gets other frequent lessons from Ford's production boss, white-crested Charles E. Sorensen. Henry II puts in a ten-to twelve-hour day, finds little time for golf (he shoots in the nineties) or to take pictures with...