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...abed in his South Carolina home last week, Mr. Hutton must have sat bolt upright when he heard the reaction to his suggestion. Angry editorials burgeoned. Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Committee thought Mr. Hutton should be investigated. Mr. Hutton's trim, dapper figure appeared in a Rollin Kirby cartoon, soliciting Big Business support to "gang" Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Colby Chester of General Foods hastily disclaimed his chairman's ideas as representing corporate policy. A market letter of Weingarten & Co. offered Stockbroker Hutton some sage advice: "Interests and forces opposed to the Administration...
...days later a sentry was killed by one of Emperor Haile Selassie's "domesticated" lions as five of the great beasts escaped, clawed five more sentries in their bolt out of the Palace. Though His Majesty calls himself "Conquering Lion of Judah" and makes special pets of lions, the five Beast Kings were finally mowed down with a machine gun last week by Colonel Mekouria of the Imperial Guard. Next at Addis Ababa came the paganistic maypole ritual with which Ethiopians every year open the dry season, their season of battle. Since this festival is always an orgy...
...bolt upright in surprise when War Office Secretary Douglas Hacking announced that His Majesty's Government are abandoning the U. S.-invented Lewis automatic rifle in favor of the "superior" Czechoslovak-invented Bren submachine gun. This will be made in Britain under a patent agreement as with the Lewis gun. For heavier work the Army will continue to use standard British machine guns turned out by Vickers...
Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath...
...protégées the Kompa sisters, Erna and Elizabeth. Quite as pretty, almost as fast, they finished first and second in the 220-yd. race. Katherine Rawls won the 300-metre medley for the fourth year in a row, just after being severely frightened by a bolt of lightning which struck a nearby telegraph pole. RealtorJoseph P. Day, dressed in a bathing suit, handed out prizes. It was the Amateur Athletic Union National championship swimming meet for women. When it was over, after four days of splashing in & about a Manhattan Beach, N. Y. pool, that small, sunburned...