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...Church to meddle in politics." He promised that if Germany wins the plebiscite it will modernize the Saar's old mines, sink new ones and find new markets. Afterwards leaders of the Saar German Front promised him 92% of the vote (about 500,000). Setting her square jaw squarer, 52-year-old Sarah Wambaugh last week set out for her new job determined to hold both France and Germany at arm's length while Saar residents choose their own destiny...
...stadium advertising TARZAN AND HIS MATE at the Des Moines Theatre. A hairy-legged Tarzan in his own right, Jack Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last distance marker. Distance: 55 ft. 4 in.-some 23 in. beyond the world record...
...other manufacturers, including Henry Ford, found it prudent to retire from the field. It was to create a market for his planes that he started Century and Century Pacific airlines, made air travel popular by slashing fares to railroad levels. Slim, young-looking, with a muscular bulge in the jaw, Errett Cord presents a collegiate aspect despite never having gone to college. He rarely speaks his mind, but when he does he uses a language racy and rich with anatomical allusions, forceful expletives. Studious-looking with his glasses on, he might be taken for a young college instructor. Without glasses...
...curious Englishman called on the famed Belmonte to watch him prepare be fore a fight. "The first thing that Bel monte undressed and then dressed was the repulsive wound extending through his jaw and to his nose; then he took off the lower part of his pajamas and exposed some open sores which he had on his thighs, some souvenirs of lessons in the art of fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive...
...about the Government's "treachery against the proletariat." On the platform lolled 25 of his red-shirted Left Socialist stalwarts. On the outskirts of the crowd 100 "regular" Party men eyed Tejeda coldly, fingered their revolvers. Suddenly they could stand no more. Bang, bang! Tejeda's jaw froze. He ducked. The 25 stalwarts leaped to their feet. Bang, bang! Tejeda turned, sprinted for cover. The 25 turned with him. sprinted into the line of fire. Tejeda dodged and twisted from door to pillar. The 25 dodged and twisted with him. Bang, bang! Nicks suddenly appeared in the plaster...