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...great Togo at the Battle of Tsushima Strait. Affable with junior officers he is extremely popular in the service. More important for the present war, there is probably no Japanese flag officer who knows more about China and the China coast. Admiral Yonai drinks, but sparingly, even at the Gargantuan drinking bouts for which Japan is famous. His chief hobby is calligraphy; drawing intricate Chinese characters on rice paper with a camel's hair brush, a sport that requires great steadiness of hand. His fine Japanese hand had its work cut out fortnight ago when Emperor Hirohito called...
...York State racing commissioner, Jockey Club member, president of the American Thoroughbred Breeders Association and scion of a great U. S. turf family, typifies Saratoga's rich and formidable August colony-this seems a piece of gross misdoing. In the breakfast room of the gargantuan old Grand Union Hotel* last week he rose to address the convened National Association of State Racing Commissioners on this subject...
...expects to add some refinements of his own. President of Duro-Test is a small, jovial Jew named Maxwell Monroe Bilofsky, who is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and keeps a ticker running in his downtown office. Dr. Bilofsky, who has no great love for his gargantuan competitor, General Electric Co., claims that General Electric-which has affiliations with Philips of Holland-has done its best for years to keep krypton lamps out of the U. S. Dr. Spielholz believes that U. S. consumers could save $32,000,000 annually in lighting bills by using krypton lamps...
...Open Championship always produces at least one heroic round. Last week it was provided on the second day of play by Jimmy Thomson whose gargantuan drives have made him for the past two years the most spectacular professional in the land. Golfer Thomson arrived at the 17th green needing a par and a birdie for a 64, by two strokes the lowest Open score on record. He then missed a 2-ft. putt by inches, missed another on the 18th, took a 66. Meantime the defending champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen...
Taking possession of the premises he settles down for the night in Mrs. Wetherby's guest bedroom. She tries to frighten him by lending him a pair of gargantuan pajamas which, she says, her husband has discarded as too small. In the picture's funniest sequence she puts on a pair of hiking boots, clumps up the stairs in simulation of a drunken male's arrival while Raymond, swathed in yards of striped pongee, listens trembling in his bedroom. Next day, after he has volunteered to act as butler at a dinner she is giving to celebrate...