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...agreed last week that it had indeed been a bad blunder to destroy the Aland forts in 1922. It would be wise, they thought, to pay Finland to rebuild them. Seeing eye-to-eye with them was at least one big man in Finland-Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the Defense Council. Baron Mannerheim has a good claim to the title of Finland's "Grand Old Man." Now 67, he fought through the Tsars' wars to the rank of Major General of Cavalry in 1917. After the last Tsar abdicated and Kerensky took over...
...Bedford Hills, N. Y., one blazing summer day, Emil Schoor fished a handsome little pickerel from Cross River Reservoir. When a game warden stretched his tape along its belly four hours later the fish measured n inches, just one inch under the legal limit. Stoutly Emil Schoor contended that his prize, when caught, was a full foot long, that the sun must have shrunk it. Police put the pickerel...
...fine. Having summoned the jury, however, the presiding justice of the peace let the prosecution call its witnesses. From the New York Aquarium came an ichthyologist to testify that no pickerel in his experience had ever shrunk more than a quarter of an inch. Indignantly Emil Schoor changed his mind about dropping the case, asked for a change of venue. The court refused the petition, clapped the defendant in jail. Released on bail, Schoor went to the State Supreme Court, got his change of venue. The pickerel stayed...
...Schoor's experts stretched the maximum pickerel shrinkage to three-quarters of an inch. The jury was out two hours. Said the foreman: "Guilty." The judge: "$50." Emil Schoor threatened to appeal...
Early this year in Washington, Emil Hurja and Theodore Huntley began to bet. Mr. Hurja, a prime political dopester in his own right, is Postmaster General Farley's second-in-command at Democratic National headquarters. "Ted" Huntley, a pompous little ex-Washington correspondent with an amazing bass voice, is the arch-Republican secretary of Pennsylvania's arch-Republican Senator David Aiken Reed...