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...singers real champagne to drink as they sing "Hoch! Champagner, Konig aller Weine!" To cheer up depressed Vienna some 2.000 Rotarians & wives arrived last week for the 22nd Annual Convention of Rotary International. About 50 of the visitors pranced about the capital in green Tyrolese kneepants, short jackets, feather-peaked hats. Composer Lehar, who still resides in Vienna, is the conductor-mem-ber of Vienna's Rotary Club, rehearsed the two operettas The Merry Widow and The Land of Smiles to entertain his fellow Rotarians during their visit. Most complex item of Rotarian business to be settled: whereas each...
...Well aware was President Hoover of the political battles his proposal invited. The War Department was swamped with inquiries from anxious and excited Congressmen as to whether this or that Army post was to go. A garrison, no matter how old or useless, in his district is a great feather in the political cap of any Representative. Supplies are bought in his community. Soldiers spend their pay among his constituents. Troops are on hand for all local celebrations. So tenaciously have Senators and Representatives fought for their Army posts that, as a group, they have succeeded in blocking practically...
...short-barreled revolver. Famed U. S. hunting bowmen: Captain Cassius Styles who every year kills mountain lions and cuts yew in Oregon; the late Dr. Saxton Pope who killed African lions, mountain lions, brown and grizzly bears; Arthur H. Young who one moonlit African night buried a shaft feather-deep in the heart of a 600 Ib. lion which died in 20 seconds...
Died. Snip, cream cairn terrier, favorite pet of King George V; after choking on a feather while stalking the Royal pigeons at Windsor Castle...
...decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder is in any doubt, he will find my full name printed...