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...either been returned to their owners or dissipated by mismanagement and peculation. ¶ At "street fair" given by the National Women's Press Guild, Daniel Krassner, circus weight guesser, was suddenly confronted by the First Lady of the Land. "This little lady-" he stammered, "she weighs-er-155 Ib." Mrs. Roosevelt then sat on a swinging scale which registered 145 Ib. Guesser Daniel gave her a cane as forfeit...
...ancient tariff device began to work in unfortunate ways for the beet sugar industry. It left Cuba with a huge sugar surplus, brought her producers such hardships that they sold their product as low as ⅝? a Ib. (in 1932). But even with a 2? a lb. duty the costly beet sugar industry could not make a profit out of 3? sugar. Hawaii. Puerto Rico and the Philippines, well inside the tariff, could. They expanded their output immensely, until beet sugar producers realized that sooner or later the islands would take the U. S. market away from them. Thus while...
Like most marathoners, Dave Komonen is a small man, 5 ft. 6 in. He weighed 131 Ib. at the start of last week's run, lost 6 Ib. along the way. Four years ago he came from Kakisalmi, Finland to Ontario, where he is a carpenter in the Frood Mine, at Sudbury. When he finished second last year in the Boston Marathon-hardest and oldest (37 years) in the U. S.- Komonen was asked if he would try again. Aloof and taciturn, he answered "Rata auki!" ("Clear the track!"). Last summer he won marathons at Washington and Toronto. Last...
...three older brothers had gone respectively to West Point, Annapolis and Princeton. Bob Michelet chose vigorous, informal, outdoor Dartmouth. Even there his clean-limbed 6 ft. 1 in. and 185 Ib. caught passing eyes. Elected captain, he led the freshman football team through a hard season undefeated. In the spring he was elected president of his class, received the William S. Churchill Prize as its outstanding member...
...Sampson was the man who muscled up the stone in the City of Mecca. It weighed 3,000 Ib...