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...credit for the victory. Next day the Cubs beat the Braves 4 to 3 in 15 innings. Pitcher Bush replaced Pitcher Bob Smith in the 15th, received credit for another victory. In a National League pennant race even closer than last year's, the Brooklyn Dodgers last week overtook the Pittsburgh Pirates in second place, whittled Chicago's first place lead to three games...
...Last week the Times was bought by the noisy, up-&-coming Star (circ. 140,000), presumably for its nuisance value. The Star is published by Elzey Roberts, archfoe of Radio, whose father bought it in 1913. Few months ago Publisher Roberts boasted that in 1931 the Star overtook 28 U. S. dailies in yearly advertising lineage...
...closely balanced 72nd House of Representatives had no sooner been elected a year ago than Death began racing the 435 members-elect. In a twelve-month it overtook 13 Congressmen, left their Capitol seats vacant. Up until last week special elections had filled six of these vacancies with new men and left the House standing...
...affairs, Gerhardi, now 36. admits to many, describes his inamoratas but preserves their pseudonymity. One. whom he calls "Nina," he won by "telling the story of the man who cut off his nose while shaving, dropped the razor and cut off his big toe, and in the confusion which overtook him clapped his nose on the stump of his toe, and his toe on his face, so that whenever thereafter he happened to blow his nose, his boot came off. She laughed freely, and felt herself drawn toward...
...Hyphen 11 got away first into the rising sun. Ten minutes later the Question Mark gave chase, overtook Lebrix & Doret beyond Brussels. Near Dusseldorf a fuel line became clogged and the Question Mark made a forced landing. Lebrix & Doret, whose plane had no radio, pushed on into dirty weather over Russia in the belief that their rival still led them...