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President Roosevelt is 6 ft. 2 in. tall, weighs 183 Ib...
...shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia's Broad Street to impress convening Democrats with his slogan: "Feathers Instead of Bullets." Half-naked Mr. Hockaday next burst into the Washington office of Acting Secretary of War Woodring, where he dumped 40 Ib. of feathers to discourage warfare. When this lively eccentric tried the same thing at the Maryland State American Legion Convention at Baltimore last August, the Legionaries gave him an unmerciful beating. Since then peace-loving Woody Hockaday had been recuperating in a mental asylum...
...sport, professional wrestling currently amounts to something between a side show and a racket. Main object of wrestling promoters is to discover human monstrosities. Last week Boston wrestling enthusiasts were treated to a glimpse of the latest addition to the wrestling group. He was Martin ("Leviathan") Levy, 35, 610 Ib...
...Julius Alfonse, who did not play last year, and his co-captain, Tackle Ed Widseth, are others. Minnesota's likeliest halfbacks this year are a pair who, because they played together with phenomenal success at a Minneapolis high school, are now called the "touchdown twins." One is 158-Ib. Rudy Gmitro, who averaged a gain of 15 yd. per play in eight plays last year. The other is Uram, who has been preparing to play on the Minnesota varsity since he was 10. For Uram, last-minute touchdowns, far from miraculous, appear to be habitual. Three weeks...
Small chips are loaded in a "gun" 20 in. in diameter, about 7 ft. long. The gun is then sealed and steam introduced until the pressure is 1,200 Ib. per sq. in. Softened, the wood becomes so saturated with steam at that terrific pressure that when the gun is "fired" the wood simply explodes, leaving a mass of brown fibre...