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Buckley, the flashiest Feslerman, always seems to be right at the top when it comes to scoring points, but he will have to sink quite a few baskets if he is going to equal or surpass his feat of trailing only Broberg and Bennett last year for top scoring honors in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...
...British naval base at Singapore and the adjoining native State of Johore, they would have had no chance of hitting its Sultan. With rare courage for an Oriental potentate, he has insisted upon living in blitzed London. There, at swank Grosvenor House, which puts on one of the flashiest girl shows in the British Isles, the 67-year-old Sultan of Johore spends the sort of life that few 20th-century sultans live outside the sultry cartoons of Esquire. Last week Johore rejoiced in a new houri, the shift being directly due to Adolf Hitler's war against England...
...annual Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan last week, the world's greatest miler, Glenn Cunningham, crouched on the same starting line with the year's flashiest middle-distance man, swiftfooted Negro John Borican. The distance was 1,000 yards, for which Elroy Robinson set the world's outdoor record of 2 min. 9.7 sec. in 1937. Veteran Starter Johnny McHugh, who has been sending track men off the mark for over 30 years, after two false starts raised his shiny little pistol and fired. They were away...
...where he had earned several "I's" in track and joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Not a champion drinker, Brundage acquitted himself creditably Stockholm. Soon after, he took up handball, and became one of the country's outstanding singles players while his own construction company put up some Chicago's flashiest apartment and office buildings...
...real name unknown. He appeared in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, fell in with an aged utilitycoon who soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin...