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...netless, stands on her pretty blonde head on a trapeze at the very top of the circus heavens. Massimilliano Truzzi juggles knives, flaming torches and the spectators' nerves. Half a hundred elephants galumph around the ring and take a bow in unison. Hubert Castle staggers like a drunken clubman on his tightwire. And in his air-conditioned, chrome steel cage in the menagerie, Gargantua, the 550-lb. gorilla who at eleven years is probably not yet old enough to mate with M'Toto, his presumed gorillass (TIME, March 3), makes the angriest faces in the world and then...
...Duquesne Clubman Ernest T. Weir said he had nothing to do with the Church offer. Embarrassed Dr. Church said the Times wrongly hooked the Duquesne Club into his plan, had a note posted on the Duquesne bulletin board: "I want to extend my apologies to every member...
...Senate, "the U. S.'s most exclusive club," Clubman Bulkley, jovial, substantial, friendly, fits easily and well. But Senator Bulkley has not fulfilled his youthful Congressional promise. His voting record, which has hopped back & forth over the New Deal fence, can be classified as either independent or puzzling. He has voted against such New Deal measures as gold devaluation, NIRA, the Black 30-Hour-Week Bill, TVA, AAA (both 1935 and 1938), Soil Conservation, the Guffey Coal Act, Wages & Hours. But he stood with the New Deal on both the bills Franklin Roosevelt chose to regard as tests...
Setting records is nothing new for Mrs. Howe. As Dorothy lona Campbell, she won the U. S. women's golf championship in 1909, the year she came to the U. S. from her native Scotland. As Dorothy Campbell Hurd (after marrying Clubman Jack V. Hurd of Pittsburgh), she established the greatest record of any woman golfer in the world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell...
Dick Dorson, not up to par, lost to the University Clubman Hoehn, 3-0. Alvah Sulloway dipped his flag to Withington, 3-1. Johnny Develin, winning again with his powerful drives, overcame Gunn, 3-1. Dan Burbank, playing well, edged Sullivan 3-2. George B. Blake lost to Monier in another close fought match...