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Craning his neck to get a ringside view from the fighters' aisle at a Mexico City bullfight, inquisitive Biographer Emil Ludwig got the shock of his life when an angry bull lunged out of the ring, pursued him hotly down the passageway...
...Finland had won its war with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
Carl Milles (born Carl Emil Wilhelm Anderson) is regarded today as the finest monumental sculptor in the U. S. Because his family thought the name Anderson (which sounds to Swedes like "Smith" to Englishmen) was too common, it took for a surname the father's nickname ("Mille"). In Paris he became a friend and assistant to the late Auguste Rodin. After World War I he got a job as professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Stockholm. But the Swedish critics disliked the distortions and fearsome grimaces of his statues, never conceded him a top ranking among Swedish...
...Pathfinder, Publisher Emil Hurja, acclaimed as the statistician who in 1936 told Jim Farley that President Roosevelt would carry 46 States, this year forecast a Republican victory, gave Willkie a popular majority of nearly 1,000,000 votes. Harvard's Professor William Leonard Crum, writing in Barron's weekly, predicted that Willkie would "probably win with about 300 electors...
...Wall poll is not, as TIME mistakenly reported last month, owned or controlled by Emil Hurja...