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...column a summary of the speed boat records made by Gar Wood the late Sir Henry Segrave. I should like to know the speed made by the late Sir Henry on the day of his death. Please inform me also as to the greatest speed made in a sea-flea and who by. This is to settle an argument and we have agreed that TIME'S report decides the winner. H. C. McGuire Cobourg...
...water-logged tree branch, hurtled to his death. Last week the reconditioned Miss England II carried Racer Kaye Don 100 m. p. h. on Lough Neagh, Ireland, in a trial preparatory to attempting the world's record at Buenos Aires before the Prince of Wales. The sea-flea (outboard hydroplane) record: 50.9 m. p. h., by Ray Pregenzer of Antioch...
...death the U. S. Methodists under his lieutenant Francis Asbury were already de facto a separate church; Wesley's demise legalized the divorce. Wesley was a gentleman and had a gentleman's education. At Oxford before he was converted he wrote verses envying Chloe's flea for its ability to roam Chloe, and attended at least one expensive & bibulous banquet. But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated. When John and his brother Charles got religion they took it hard, in a day when godliness was milder than measles...
Many a dog of today is so genteel that he has never had a flea, never chased a cat. Last week Arthur W. Smith, stylish dog doctor, announced the opening of an exclusive hospital for nervous dogs in West Orange, N. J. Each pet will have a private room, will eat scientifically prepared foods. If, in spite of care, one of the dogs should die, Dogdoctor Smith has a cemetery handy. Near the hospital, 438 dead dogs already lie in neat graves covered with vines and freshly cut flowers. Small white tombstones mark each place. One, a double grave...
...ablest and most prosperous flea-trainers in the world is Jean Rochet of France. Last week in Paris he was negotiating with U. S. immigration and quarantine authorities for permission to take his educated fleas on a U. S. tour. In the course of telling his troubles to a U. S. newsgatherer, he made a pronouncement surprising to laymen: "I prefer the male flea, because he is more conscientious." Professor William Heckler, owner of Manhattan's largest flea-circus, disagrees with Jean Rochet. Professor Heckler uses mostly females in his acts. He finds that the male flea, which...