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Polar Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, lecturing at Oxford University, said: "The Far North is the greatest Hero Factory in the world...
...rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed, once to Actress Leatrice Joy by whom he has a daughter...
There was no need to awaken the city of Barcelona, which has just opened an exposition of its own. Barcelona is Spain's greatest seaport, most modern, most commercially successful city of the Iberian peninsula. Barcelona's exposition buildings on a hillside overlooking the city are new, strikingly modernistic...
...Preakness is Maryland's greatest race, traditional preliminary for the Derby at Churchill Downs, Ky., greatest U. S. race. But Owner Salmon announced that Dr. Freeland would not run in the Derby this weekend...
England's greatest race is the Epsom Derby (June 5 this year). A great test preliminary for the Epsom Derby is the Thousand Guineas for fillies, run last fortnight at Newmarket, won by Taj Mah. Another favorite for the Epsom Derby is Cragadour, Lord Astor's colt. Drawings were announced last week in the ?1,000,000 ($4,860,000) London Stock Exchange Derby Sweepstakes. This year two tickets were issued for each of the 335 Derby entries. A ticket on Cragadour was drawn by one Jimmie Gibbs, aged...