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...Midway, officially named.for the amusement centre of the 1893 Fair, the visitor will find under new names most of the devices which amused the visitors of 40 years ago. Here are the Lindy Loop, the Hey Dey, Bozo, a roller coaster, Midget Village, captive balloon, shooting galleries, an Oriental village with dancing girls...
Over the Exhibition the Guardian glowed: "The surprising bicycle 'boom' of the last 18 months is shown here in all its glory, from midget machines to luxurious tandems with no fewer than eight gears which can be changed with a flick of the wrist while the cyclists are actually pedaling. There is thus no need on these machines to freewheel while slipping into another gear...
...over the National Broadcasting chain, listened to by 150 judges in all parts of the country who telegraphed their votes back to N. B. C. in Manhattan. Week later the five pieces were played again, the composers announced. Philip James of Manhattan won $5,000 for Station WGZBX, a midget symphony which ingeniously describes lobby confusion at a studio, interference and "static, a slumber hour, microphone hysteria. Another $5,000 was divided between Max Wald, a native of Litchfield, Ill., living in Paris; Carl Eppert of Milwaukee, Florence Grandland Galajikian of Maywood, Ill., Nicolai Berezowsky of Manhattan. President Merlin Hall...
...asked Bobby Jones to play a round of midget-golf with a 25? putter, he might refuse but he would not be shocked. But if you asked Lo Wenching to play a game of table tennis, his small Chinese face, no longer inscrutable, would assume an appalled expression, as though you had insulted one of his ancestors. Lo Wenching comes from Peiping and he learned to play ping-pong at Tsing-Hua University. He, like other ping-pong players, hates mention of table tennis because so many people confuse it with ping-pong which is played with patented equipment...
Born. To Baron Jozippie Paucci, vaudeville midget (height 37 in.); and Margaret Lane, diving beauty (height 5 ft. 8 in.), his estranged wife: a daughter; in Memphis. Weight: 5 Ib. 11 oz. Said Baroness Paucci: "Yes, I love my husband. . . . That's why I married him. . . . We parted because we were jealous. . . . Women were always picking him up and telling him how cute...