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...bogeymen with which the Soviet press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison...
...might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only a seaplane could have sped faster, yet the distance of 6,000 miles seemed illimitable, mocking. Perhaps the young man remembered Kipling's words...
...King's sons? The youngest, Prince John, died in 1919 at the age of 14. The youngest who still lives, Prince George, a lieutenant on H. M. S. Durban, was reported from Bermuda to have received orders to dash for London, transferring in mid-ocean from the frail destroyer Durban to a swift and sturdier liner. Only the Duke of York, second son of His Majesty, was at the Royal bedside. The Duke of Gloucester and Edward of Wales-imminent King and Emperor-were on their "good will tour" (TIME. Sept. 17) of British Africa. Probably because...
...gangster taking part in the crime-wave of the cinema has undergone a more amazing reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with a little cabaret girl...
Notre Dame looked frail; the Notre Dame cheering section was weak, while two thousand soldiers wrapped in their grey capes roared. They expected to see famed Chris Cagle, the Army halfback, rush through the little men in front of him. Instead, whenever he took the ball, a flock of Notre Dame players started at him like birds which he could not brush away. In the second half it was not Cagle's brilliance but the slow rush of the whole team that brought the ball up the field for a touchdown; somehow Notre Dame struggled back again with...