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...World's Biggest Horse" is Sillon B, 12, pure white, foaled in France, owned by C. H. Van Wickle, of Waterloo, N. Y. Weight: 2,960 Ib. Girth 8 ft. 10 in. Height: 21 hands. Average height for equus: 15 hands. Says Owner Van Wickle: "He's just getting his growth...
...coffee merchant husband dead and three children on her hands, she bought 100 Ib. of coffee from friends on credit, roasted it, sold it to other friends at 75% profit. In seven years she had put the children through school. To the coffee business she had added tea and cocoa...
Copper-nickel alloys, said Dr. Paul Dyer Merica of International Nickel Co., are now prepared by heat treatment to stand a pull of 175,000 Ib. per sq. in., a tensile trength comparable to that of heat-treated steel...
Born. To Irving Berlin, song writer, and Ellin Mackay Berlin, daughter of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph Co.; a second daughter. Weight: 7½ Ib...
...Despite a busy life, the Holy Father is fitter at 74 than many a less active man. But his weight has dropped from 189 to 176 Ib. He used to smoke strong Italian stogies, does so no more. He has given up drinking wines (Bordeaux was his favorite), drinks boiled water, a custom he adopted in Poland. Slightly diabetic, he eats sparingly but still likes Milanese cuisine, risottos, cutlets. He has a valet named Malvestiti.* The Holy Father shaves himself, with a safety razor. Once a fortnight Simoncelli, the Papal barber, cuts his hair which is still dark. Simoncelli must...