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Champion Max Baer. Baby Baer, a 237-Ib. giant who towers 6 ft. 6½ in., is 35 Ib. heavier and 5½ inches taller than Joe Louis. But he went into the ring a 10-to-1 underdog...
supply (enough to last three years) has been in the hands of two or three speculative groups, who bought their way in for about $800,000 and have pushed the price from 4½? to a peak of 7⅝? a Ib. This increase of 70% in four months compares with an average increase of 6% for all commodities...
...great-grandfather was famed, hotheaded Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart. Her initial E stands for Elizabeth; she dropped the name to spite her twice-divorced mother. With 20 Ib. less, Stuart might be called a Scarlett O'Hara type. She traveled in Europe and Mexico, attended two private schools, knows the Greenwich Village nightclubs, drives two big cars furiously and admits she has turned down ten marriage proposals. Once she gave a house party that lasted six weeks. Boss of a 1,200-acre estate, Axton Lodge, Stuart lives alone with an old colored mammy and an adopted brother...
...since Lord Lothian's death have U.S. citizens heard such plain talk from a British official as they heard last week. The plain talker was big (196 Ib.) Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. Homeward bound after a 30,000-mile tour of the British Empire, fresh from ten weeks with the War Cabinet in London, the Prime Minister stepped out of the Clipper to be greeted by Australian Minister Richard Casey. Then, with no kowtowing to supposed U.S. sensibilities, he let fly with a statement on war aims, flew in a camouflaged bomber to Ottawa, returned...
Acknowledging the hole nylon has made in U.S. silk consumption, Japan last week cut its 1941 silk production quota 20% under 1940, hoped to keep the price well above the current $2.38-a-lb., Government-fixed minimum. This year Du Pont plans to produce 8,000,000 Ib. of nylon at its Seaford, Del. plant, enough to take over 17% to 20% of the U.S. hosiery trade, make a third 'of a million pairs of stockings a day. Late this year, Du Font's new plant at Martinsville, Va. will double this output, drive still harder against Japan...