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...disqualified as an amateur because he had played professional baseball) and threatened to sue the A.A.U. It was bad enough, he said, for the Olympic Committee to take back the medals he had won, "but I do hold that the officials had no right to take back the bronze bust of himself that King Gustav V of Sweden gave me or the jewel-studded silver Viking ship the Czar of Russia asked me to accept. They belong to me and must be returned or I will bring a suit for damages...
...Never in all my born days," wrote Ruark, "did I romp into a city room and scream: 'Stop the presses, we're going to bust this town wide open!' I never turned up a hat in front, nor wore a press card in the band of said...
Sardines, Dimes, Cheese. After the war, Jo took off for Russia, hoping to fill out his plastic history with a bust of Lenin. He never got Lenin, but he got a host of influential underlings. When Foreign Minister Chicherin, who lived in great splendor, heard that Karl Radek, who lunched off sardines on newspaper,* was being sculpted, Chicherin remarked to Jo: "What a curious man, Radek. Why does he go on living in such squalor? . . . After all, there has been the revolution." "He is a curious man, Chicherin," confided Radek. "Look at the way he lives. You would never know...
...cost inventories and overproduction). She squeaked through only by wangling two RFC loans for a total of $1,600,000 (has paid off all but about $600,000). Tillie chose this poor time to launch another venture-a Texas company to import and can Mexican pineapples. Tex-Mex went bust, and Tillie says she lost $600,000 on the deal. But Flotill kept on growing...
...tense and over-charged scrutiny of the mural? Once they know it is a cow, they can sit there and champ their boiled scrod and ensilage in peace. I really do not know that they could ask for anything better, unless it would be to eat underneath a plaster bust of Charles Evans Hughes...