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Only a half-dozen first-rate marksmen?men who consistently break more than 95 out of 100 targets?have won the Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing...
...Farnsworth, first test ship, passing out of Hudson Bay by Hudson Strait under the bleak heel of Baffin Land, reached the Port of London in 16 days. This year 3,000,000 bushels of wheat are booked to go in 16 ships from Churchill's high-class modern elevator dock...
...jovial, foxy-grandpa-esque, Cartoonist Young, 66, went to Manhattan from Danbury, Conn, where he had spent the winter, to tell about a new book he has written & illustrated. Forty years ago he did a book on Hell. Now he has revisited Hell, found and portrayed it as a high-class modern community, completely taken over by Capitalist Exploiters, with the Old Boy Himself relegated to the background by powers-behind-the-throne...
...School of City Planning is sponsoring a small exhibit of models and photographs of an early high-class land subdivision development in Baltimore, Maryland, projects which represent a great advance over anything done so far in America in the planning of highly restricted residential sites. The photographs will be shown on the first floor of Robinson Hall Annex...
...setting is a high-class tenement house. The story concerns all the people who live in it, but chiefly the Maurrants who give the other tenants cause for talk-derisive, frightened, sympathetic- on the dingy front stoop. Mr. Maurrant is a stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney...