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...recreation demanded by his lifework of building up his father's Ravenna stable of trotting horses which he hopes to make the best in Italy, if not in the world. Independently rich, Swimmer Gambi has for several years been challenging swimmers like Champion Marvin Nelson to a 5-mi. race for a $25,000 side bet. So far no one has bothered to accept. He uses a strange 76-to-the-minute stroke which causes him to be called "the Italian windmill." Thick and loquacious, Swimmer Gambi celebrated his victory by going to Montreal for another marathon swim this...
Last week, Swimmer Gambi managed to contribute not one surprise but two to the Toronto race. This time, partly because the water was about 20° warmer than usual (74°) and partly because the race had been shortened from 15 mi. to five, Swimmer Gambi not only finished but won, against 90 high-grade professionals, in the excellent time of 2 hr., 8 min., 55 sec. Hauled onto a float and wrapped in a towel, he shouted into a microphone: "I am happy to have won for Italy and Il Duce!" A crowd of 10,000 immediately stopped cheering...
...crash of 1929, the first American Austin scooted out of a factory at Butler, Pa. Copied from the immensely popular British Austin, it was 28 inches shorter than the smallest standard car, came up to a man's chin, cost $445 f. o. b. Butler. It ran 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline, achieved a speed of 50 m. p. h. Two strong men could lift it into any 10-ft. parking space...
Thus enlightened, Washington officials sped a $2,000,000 check order to Sacramento by telegraph. There it was learned that Governor Merriam was in Long Beach, 500 mi. away. But he would be in Los Angeles at 2 p. m. to sign the check. Southward zoomed the check by airplane. At 2 p. m. Governor Merriam was still in Long Beach, having a tooth pulled. Could his secretary sign for him? No, ruled a Federal official, nobody but the Governor. A messenger leaped into an automobile, roared out to Long Beach with the check. The Governor signed. Another messenger leaped...
...Japan the Son of Heaven, last of 124 rulers in unbroken descent from the Son Goddess Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, is never cartooned. The very notion freezes pious Japanese to the marrow and members of the Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared...