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...children of Brazil's Petropolis, in celebration of President Getulio Vargas' 59th birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums...
Record. In Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Junior Eugene J. Frechette Jr. breathed deeply for three minutes, took three breaths of oxygen, then sat purple-faced, breathless, like-to-bust, for 20 min., 5 sec. When he finally let go, he had broken the known world's record...
This week New York, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, other towns had launched civic scrap-collecting experiments. The New York campaign was a bust, and not much was expected of the others. Meanwhile steel mills got shorter & shorter of scrap...
Suddenly at midweek, Singapore burst into cheers. The British Malayan Command at last threw the Australians into battle. Flippant as ever, the Aussies moved up to the line, through columns of haggard retiring Britons and Indians, in busses marked' "Tokyo or Bust" and "Nippon Express...
With horns blowing and a sound truck blaring Dixie, the caravan circled the Capitol twice, then halted at a statue of oldtime Populist Demagogue Thomas E. Watson. A student jammed a wax bust of Talmadge over the statue's head. Up jumped Cheerleader William Malone and bellowed through his megaphone "Are we afraid of Talmadge?" The mob roared: "Hell...