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Three all time greats will perform in the Stadium, pits and on the Stadium cinders. Georgetown's gargantuan Al Blozis, a Sophomore, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall and who weighs 240 pounds, and has a well nigh perfect physique, may develop to be one of America's greatest weight men. He already holds the American record in the 160-pound shot put at 55 ft. 10 1/2 in., and he may break this record, the I.C.A.A.A.A. record, and perhaps Jack Torrance's World Record in the Stadium pit, which this week has been enlarged to accommodate Blozis...
Observers, noting gargantuan national defense bills being swallowed by the U. S. almost without a murmur, wondered whether the policymakers, the cable-readers, had not misinterpreted the national will for isolationism as a wish for peace at any price. Popular reaction to American White Paper may tell much. But gone were the days when Calvin Coolidge spoke for the nation in saying "The business of America is business." Senator Key Pittman last week seemed almost as out-of-date when he said: "Let the mothers and fathers of America sleep in peace...
...ketchup into Sullivan's score, Tropical Pinafore shifted base from foggy England to a banana-bright Caribbean isle. Opening with a jungle chant that Sullivan neglected to write, it burst into syncopation when a huge, black, big-bosomed Little Buttercup appeared, calling Dick Deadeye picklepuss and shaking her gargantuan hips...
Last week Buna took out its final U. S. naturalization papers. Its sponsor was its godfather, gargantuan Standard Oil Co. (N. J.), which has research relationships with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie, had a laboratory seat in the development of Buna from German coal gases and limestone. Its first residence will be Baton Rouge, where, Standard announced last week, a plant will be built to turn out Buna beginning late this year (capacity 10,000 Ib. a day), under the management of two subsidiaries-sales-minded Standard of Louisiana, research-minded Standard Oil Development...
...realism and fantasy seldom mix even in the Amazon jungle. Result: the plight of the miniature actors, dodging for their lives behind a huge can of pork & beans, peering up at a towering rooster or laboriously sawing themselves slices of gargantuan boloney, is less frightening than funny...