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Suicide Point and President Hayashi owe everything to Miss Kiyoko Matsumoto, an attractive but highly sensitive student of Jissen Girls College in Tokyo. Just two years ago Miss Matsumoto confided to a chum: "Dearest, I am bewildered to distraction by the perplexities of maturing womanhood. I can stand the strain no longer. What shall I do? I should like to jump into a volcano...
...Jump off the roof of a department store," would have been the advice of Chum Masako Tomito, had the emergency occurred a few months earlier. At the time of her friend's perplexity, however, all Tokyo's department stores, tired of having patrons jump off their roofs, had hired vigilant guards and fenced their cornices with barbed wire. Today every high building in Tokyo is thus equipped to foil the desperate. Miss Tomito wracked her brain, then had an inspiration. "Dearest!" she cried, "if you cannot bear the perplexities of maturing womanhood I can take you to just...
...members publish about 150 journals, each of which is sent to every other member through a central mailing bureau. A member's packet of journals would include such items as The Pippin, The Odd One, The Penpoint, The Empire, The Sea Gull, Leisure Hours, Boys' Chum, Badger Scratches, The Bob White, Tiny Tim, The New Times ("TNT'), The Giddy Gazette. Publisher of The Red Rooster is Ralph W. Babcock Jr. of Great Neck, L. I., elected president of N. A. P. A. last week. Although most of the papers are printed, a few are mimeographed. One such...
...tuna are too lazy to chase a moving bait. Fisherman Francis H. Low knew, when he learned from market fishermen where some big tuna had been sighted, that the thing to do was anchor his 22-ft. seaskiff and put out a chum of ground-up mackerel and mossbunker, bait a huge swordfish hook with a whole mackerel, and sit down to wait. He was eating a sandwich when "the tuna hit like an earthquake and then started out to sea like a torpedo." Fisherman Low braced himself in his leather harness for a fight that, was to last five...
...longer sheltered or restrained, the brown-haired, brown-eyed, plain-featured and slightly plump spouse of Russia's Dictator became the chum of a blonde about her own age, Paulina Semionova Zhemchuzhina. a spouse of Soviet Premier Molotov...