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Electrical communications have made carriers, with freak exceptions, obsolete. The lively sport of live-pigeon shooting is now generally illegal. The decline of the pigeon's utility has stimulated pigeon breeding as a sport. Leaving out pigeon racers, who breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria...
...advertisement showed Mr. Burton in jockey costume holding a saddle over his right arm. He said that through a freak of photography, he had been humiliated and held up to ridicule...
...Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires a shrill falsetto. Undaunted, Baritone Middleton boasted: "I have a freak voice, a peach of a falsetto. I'd make a good yodler...
Nebraska's End Paul Amen, when his teammate Gus Peters fumbled a Missouri pass he had intercepted a moment before, put out his hands and caught the ball. Officials ruled that this freak recovery and the touchdown that resulted were legal. Two more touchdowns gave Nebraska its third straight conference victory of the season...
Henry Scott, who likes best to be called "Scotty," now wears mittens winter & summer when he plays the piano, claims that as his fingers perspire they become increasingly agile. Last week in Manhattan he set out to prove his freak point, challenged anyone to play faster than he through his own Jam on the Piano, then through Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Runner-up on the Jam piece was one Marjorie Otis, weeded from a week's preliminary tryouts. While newsreels clicked, Miss Otis played some 500 notes while Scott, in his mittens, played...