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...Gandhi watch is jerked from a fold of the Mahatma's first shawl (the one next his skin) to which he secures his large ("dollar") watch by a large ("baby's") safety pin. In England St. Gandhi wears a second and often a third shawl. The three cover him tentwise when he sits crosslegged, showing only his big toes, small hands and birdlike poll topped with stiff black & white hairs clipped to a length...
Meanwhile in the English Dairy Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall the benign nanny goat that provides Mahatma Gandhi with his goat's milk defeated all comers in her class, had a blue ribbon hung about her scrawny neck and was officially named "Mahatma." Chief concrete result of the human Mahatma's visit is that in London the price of goats and goat's milk has gone up. At Kingsley Hall, where St. Gandhi sleeps and spins, a secretary disclosed that during the first days of his visit goat's milk was hard...
TIME reprinted the Daily News's composograph of Mahatma Hoover, not as news of the President of the U. S. but as a phenomenon of the U. S. Press...
Preached famed Rev. John Haynes Holmes in Manhattan on Mahatma Gandhi: "He has the dignity of a king. . . . Where do people get the idea that he is ugly? . . . His frame is large and his stature is erect and tall...
Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg, 84; William Wrigley Jr., 70; Oscar (Waldorf; Tschirky, 65; Mahatma Gandhi, 62; Charles (''Gabby") Street, 49; Hugh Herndon...