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...pistols banged in the bright sunlight. Members of the President's bodyguard were on all sides of the would-be assassin after his fifth shot. He dropped, then lay on the pavement while detectives and firemen closed in and sent 20 bullets crashing into his kicking, bleeding body till muscular reaction ceased. A block from the scene of the shooting the President's car stopped to let out two victims of the assassin's bullets: Police Commissioner Pizzia, shot in the stomach; and Carlos Maria Sicilia, employe in the Investigations Office. Police discovered that the dead assassin was one Gualterio...
...Manager McCarthy of Chicago took out Malone, one of his best pitchers. With one out, the bases filled, and the infield playing close so as to be able to field a grounder home, Cub Short-stop English boneheaded to second. Pitcher Earnshaw of Philadelphia tired but his successor, muscular Robert Moses Grove, proved that a good left-handed pitcher can do better than tradition says against a team of right-handed hitters. Athletics 9, Cubs...
Helen Hicks, a stocky girl from Hewlett, L. I., with fat cheeks and muscular legs, has become one of the best women golf players in the world by imitating her friend Maureen Orcutt. Miss Orcutt, shy and broad-shouldered, with a jaw like a prizefighter's, became good enough to be the idol of Miss Hicks by trying to be as good as Glenna Collett. Thus the three most famed of the competitors who gathered at the Oakland Hills Club in Birmingham, Mich., last week to decide the Women's National Championship composed a sequence with Hicks...
Associate Justice Stone, the muscular junior of all the rest, onetime footballer, onetime Columbia professor, onetime Attorney General...
...world's foremost physiologists. Most notable were Russia's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, "dean of the profession," 1904 Nobel Prizewinner for research on the salivary glands; Denmark's August Krogh, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for physiology of the capillaries; England's Archibald Vivian Hill, 1922 Nobel Prizewinner for research of muscular contraction; Belgium's Leon Fredericq, president of the second (1892) Congress. Present too were U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming and Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...