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Kane. Another illustrious tough guy who got a hand in Philadelphia last week was Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57). While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart. Undaunted, he studied medicine, got a post as assistant surgeon in the Navy. He fell ill in China, was twice invalided home from the Mexican War, once with coast fever, again with wounds and raging typhus. Undaunted still, he went on an expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been...
...many a grownup) well knows, Superman is THE man to have around in a 1940 pinch. He can outswim a torpedo, outfly an airplane, outdistance a streamliner train, outrun a speeding automobile, punch his way through armor plate. Also he can get down to brass tacks as Clark Kent, reporter, write superscoops for his paper...
...Duchess of Windsor and the Duchess of Kent tied for first place in a Paris dressmakers' poll naming the world's ten "best-dressed" women. Deposed was Mme Anterior Patfno, now No. 3. Newcomers: Mrs. James H. R. Cromwell, No. 4 (see below), Queen Elizabeth, No. 10. Mrs. Harrison Williams, many times tops, dropped to No. 8. Others: Begum Ago Khan, No. 5; Mrs. Gilbert Miller, No. 6; Baroness Eugene de Rothschild, No. 7; Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow...
Died. Prince Christopher of Greece, 51, youngest brother of the late King Constantine, uncle of George II of the Hellenes, uncle of the Duchess of Kent, known to the U. S. for his marriage to wealthy Mrs. William B. Leeds; from a lung abscess; in Athens...
Brown will have little strength in the dive, with two Sophomores, Bank Gossler and Bill Irvine, competing. Coach Barry is taking along as his utility men Jack Porritt, Kent Heinold, and Bill McCullough, all versatile men who may be used anywhere...