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...their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball player, baseball pitcher, football halfback, a proficient billiardist, a clever tumbler, a boxer and wrestler, a fencer, weight lifter and adagio dancer, she could only be described by appalled reporters as a "wonder girl." Last week, Wonder Girl Didrikson had cause for wonderment herself. The Amateur Athletic Union suspended her from amateur competition in the U. S. and then promised to reinstate her if & when she took an action which...
...Motorboatman Horace E. Dodge; in Manhattan. Other famed patients of Dr. Berne have-been Actress Fannie Brice, Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, Actor Bert Lytell, Singer Georgie Price and (rumored) Queen Marie of Rumania. The operation on the nose of Mrs. Dodge was successfully completed by a Dr. Joseph Safian, face-lifter to Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...
Those Americans were Dr. Eckener's hope for his Ersatzgas. The only lifting gas which he has available in Europe is hazardous hydrogen. Helium, non-inflammable, although not as efficient a lifter as hydrogen, is the only substitute which he knows of, although industrial scientists are searching for others. Helium is a natural U. S. monopoly. By devious corporate interrelations and by performing an air service for the U. S. public, he expects his U. S. collaborators to get him his gas substitute...
...Lawson Lifter, promoter and magnate of Chicago,R. S. Richey '08 May Lifter, his daughter, R. D. Murphy '08 Annie Lifter, another daughter, C, N. Eaton '08 James Christopher Lovewater, missionary to Japan, E. H. Baker '06 Admiral Ihavben A. Bumskivitch, of the Russian battleship Sinkavitsky, F. H. Whitney '06 Higginson Wigglesworth, penniless college graduate seeking a position, G. L. Yocum '07 Franklin Edison Marconi Bluebell, a Yankee wireless telegraph and telephone solicitor, F. H. Van Orman '08 Sigaret, hotel maid, afterwards maid-in-waiting to May Lifter, Morgan Jopling '06 Nami Kami, a geisha girl, H. L. Murphy...
...found by James Christopher Lovewater, a missionary on his way to Japan. Lovewater meets the lawyer Smith who takes the possession of the cigarette case as proof that the fortune which he has to bestow should go to Lovewater. The latter, now refunded, takes the same ship with the Lifters and Wigglesworth to Japan. Owing to various complications Wigglesworth is arrested by the Marquis Hari Kari, after the party has arrived in Japan, but the timely arrival of lawyer Smith, who has discovered his mistake, and the identification of Wigglesworth as an American millionaire, bring about the extrication of Wigglesworth...