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...addition to Midget Albie Booth, who made the longest run of the game, Yale showed three other able backs and a forward-passing attack, designed by new Assistant Coach Benny Friedman, which was a novelty in New Haven football. The University of Maine's team lost the game...
...lingerie was none other than that pious midget the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He had amplified his customary loin cloth with a scarf thrown over his shoulders, and a cheap watch dangled from his waist. Perspiring porters rushed ashore with St. Gandhi's clattering collection of stew pans, his mattress, his cans of goat's milk and his suitcase. But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma...
Jester G. B. Shaw proposed last week that Britain wangle the U. S. into "a suspension of from 50 to 100 years." But the "Ford of Britain," Sir Herbert Austin, maker of midget cars, was quite serious when he said, "President Hoover's step will bring the greatest credit to the United States, but a three-year suspension would be more effective...
...wares?there were 83 planes entered by 49 exhibitors?the show was a success. As to the immediate return in terms of sales, there was a difference of opinion. Seventeen manufacturers claimed 636 planes sold for a total value of $1,652,751. Largest claims: Buhl Aircraft Corp., 271 midget planes for $338,750; Pitcairn Aircraft Co., 38 autogiros for $322,000. But other exhibitors, despite an epidemic of price cutting, were frankly disappointed by lack of business. As he did at last year's show in St. Louis, Errett Lobban Cord began the price-slashing by reducing his Stinson...
...Nine holes," admitted King Prajadhipok who plays both golf and midget golf but prefers: as an exercise, rowing & punting; as a hobby, color photography* (still & cinema); and as a penchant, collecting canes (the unrivaled Royal Siamese Cane Collection is publicly exhibited once a year...