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Among the most faithful practitioners was comely, long-legged, 24-year-old Maribel Yerxa Vinson. Fastened to double-runners when a tot of 3, she soon mastered the school figures, won her first national women's championship at 16. Since then, she has won the U. S. title every...
Scrooge is a British version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, released for the U. S. Christmas trade by Paramount. A properly mean, frowzy, waspish Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks), a fine, spindly-legged Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop), a frail, treble-voiced Tiny Tim, and a number of thoroughly capable...
To the city dweller, an agricultural implement may be a hoe or a pitchfork. But the implement industry thinks of itself in terms of reapers, harvesters, threshers, trucks and tractors-particularly tractors. Its business is essentially the mechanization of the farm, the replacement of four-legged power by power obtained...
A furtive, sharp-nosed, bandy-legged little man in peasant sackcloth kept trying persistently one night last week to get into the Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie at Addis Ababa. Darting through the outer gate, the little man was instantly collared by a sentry. The sentry called a sergeant and...
The strange half-Oriental, half-African flavor of the book is concentrated in the scene that gives it its title. A criminal in Addiet, remote mountain city, was sentenced to "death by fire, in muslin," for having shot at the native prince. Rolls of muslin were dipped in hot wax...