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Nearly 500,000 men, women and children lined the streets to see the ambassador-conqueror on his way to the city's official reception, on the day when Marshal Ferdinand Foch said to him: "Come right next to me and stand very straight, so that the whole world can see-that you are bigger than I am." Captain Lindbergh blushed, crouched...
...Passiten, Germany, it was a nice day for gliding?plenty of gusts of wind, no rain. So Ferdinand Schulz established a new world's record by keeping his glider in the air for 14 hours, 8 minutes...
...through a misunderstanding with his best girl about soul-satisfying, putt-producing profanity. Rollo Podmarsh is the subject of another reminiscence. Rollo was too good to be happy or play golf or make love or anything, until his small cousin put rum in his arrowroot tea. But then- And Ferdinand Dibble-there was a case-had the heart of a "goof" until his girl booed his opponent on the last tee and he finally won a match. And William Bates, the stolid oaf: it took an insufferable poet and a water hazard to nerve him to propose. And Wallace Chesney...
...Sluys, head of the Solvay Radium Institute of Brussels, Belgium, who has several times administered radium treatment to King Ferdinand, suddenly left Brussels enroute to Bucharest where he arrived last week...
...abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, eldest son of King Ferdinand left Paris by private airplane, refused to state where he was going, was not followed by correspondents...