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Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., eccentric journalist, junketing in Mexico City, directed a cab driver to take him to his hotel. Malicious or misunderstanding, the driver continued toward the city limits until Mr. Vanderbilt tapped him on the skull with the small blackjack he carries for self-defense...
...discovered afterward that they came from the Arabian Nights: his father had heard them in Oriental marketplaces, from Turkish or Rumanian peasants. Once his father tried voting. He was taken by a Jewish Tammany man to the polls, voted three times, was suddenly hit over the head with a blackjack. Groaned he to his wife: "Katie, you were right. Voting is only for Irish bums. Never again will I do such a dangerous thing...
...General rose. A braided doorman solicitously took his elbow. "Blackjack" Pershing seemed about to faint. The commander of the A. E. F. brusquely brushed the doorman aside and stalked to the elevator, cock-robin once more...
...short, principal street is a building labeled The Foreign Club, a title which means nothing. Inside are crowded tables, covered with green cloths. On these tables anxious tourists play roulette, blackjack, poker, craps...
...before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans to drift across the Arctic in a tub-shaped boat (TIME, Jan. 14), was wrecked there. He walked across the ice to Siberia. Almost half his party died on Wrangel Island. In 1921, four men and Ada Blackjack, Eskimo sempstress, tried to live on the island. All but Miss Blackjack died. And dead, probably, are the Russian colonists sent there two years ago. A Russian relief ship, the Stavropol, tried to reach them this winter. Last week the Stavropol's captain, back at his Siberian base, reported...