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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hackensack, N. J., one Willie Schaeffer, who calls himself "the strongest man," held two airplanes on ropes, one in each hand, and kept them down though they were roaring to get up. ¶ In Wiesbaden, Dr. Alexander Alekhine won his fourth straight game from E. D. Bogoljubow, needs only two games out of the required series of 30 to keep the world chess championship. Said he: "Even the most confirmed opponent of the contention that the game is threatened with death through draws, could not have hoped for such a development." Play will be continued next week at Heidelberg...
...Madrid, Bullfighter Sydney Franklin of Brooklyn, N. Y., said that promoters had asked him to fight a bull in Manhattan "without bloodshed." Inquired Spanish critics grimly: "Would the bull keep the rules...
...biggest privately owned yacht in the world is the Orion, 333 ft. long and 46 ½ ft. wide. Last week it arrived in the U. S. from the builder's yards at Kiel on its first trip; on board was Owner Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J. The Orion is a white ship, one-funnelled, 3,096 tons, 1,800 h. p. (twin Diesels), with a crew of 54 officers and men (including a purser, a doctor). She cruised to the U. S. from Kiel via the Barbados and Havana. This autumn Yachtsman Forstmann will take...
Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J., steamed into New York harbor on the world's largest, costliest yacht ($2,000,000), his new Orion...
...Donald Cadman, nephew of Radio Preacher Samuel Parkes Cadman, drove two thieves out of his father's drugstore at Chappaqua, N. Y., had them arrested, retrieved...