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...history's most heroic acts . . . an act of perfect courage" was what President Theodore Roosevelt called it when, during target practice off Pensacola in 1904, Chief Gunner's Mate Mons Monssen of the battleship Missouri* crawled into the magazine after an explosion had already killed 29 men and injured five, and with bare hands beat out a fire which would have killed 600 more had it reached the powder room. Mate Monssen got a Congressional Medal. In 1925 he retired, a lieutenant. In 1930 he died. This spring the Navy Department notified Hero Monssen's widow that...
...Metropolitan's current bill, courtesy of Paramount, blends a musical and a drama into a thoroughly interesting program. "Cocoanut Grove" deals with the difficulties of a band-leader (Fred MacMurray) in getting a mate for himself and a job for the boys. The latter is taken care of when he lands in the Grove--an inaccurate replica of the Ambassador's famous ballroom--and the former when he wins the hand of Harriet Hilliard. A plot like this calls for strong support, and this is not lacking. Eve Arden and Ben Blue do an excellent burlesque of ballroom dancing...
Andrew Rosenberger won the pole vault at 11 ft. 6 in. His vaulting-mate Donahue was third with 11 ft. John Budlong was second in the discus with 113 ft. 9 in. In the javelin Freshman Tom Lacoy took second with 160 ft. 10 inches, and Charles Oldfather was third with seven feet less...
Lucas v. Igoe. Illinois' downstate Senator William Dieterich got himself elected on the same ticket as Chicago's Henry Horner in 1932, has since distinguished himself in Illinois by attempting unsuccessfully to swing the downstate vote away from his former running mate when Governor Horner ran for re-election in 1936. In Washington he has voted consistently for the New Deal, but last winter any hope Franklin Roosevelt might have entertained to reward Mr. Dieterich's loyalty was thwarted. Governor Horner and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly paid separate visits to the White House, each...
Last week in Brooklyn, Harry Wolf won his ninth successive national amateur squash tennis championship, proving himself as unbeatable in this sport as Jay Gould once was in court tennis, Clarence Pell in racquets. With his angled power game he beat his Montclair Athletic Club-mate Philip Moore (son of an English racquets professional from whom Wolf first learned the game at 14) in straight games...