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...Chapman is the only oldtime bicycle rider who has become important in promoting races, many other men now-famed in quieter trades were once pedalers. Some are: George Collett, father of National Woman's Golf Champion Glenna Collett; the late Albert Champion, A. C. Spark Plug man; Howard ("Poke") Freeman, cartoonist on the Newark Evening News; Worthington Longfellow Mitten, Davenport, Iowa, builder of bicycles. And many men still famed above everything else for their cycling days have done well in quieter trades. Frank Kramer, 18 times U. S. sprint champion, is police commissioner of East Orange, N. J. Maurice...
...that he had set out to write a burlesque comic opera and settled down to hammer out the sort of entertainment which used to be so admirably handled by Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar but whose present day imitations are so consistently lustreless. That Mr. Sturges originally intended to poke fun at oldtime operetta is evident in his choice of name for his mythical kingdom-Magnesia. Very lamely some of his characters are dubbed Lieutenant Schpitzelberger, Baron von Sprudelwasser. The only comic intention of the librettist which comes off is his making the prime minister a fairly funny Bronx...
...voyage to the other side of the world, or a weekend in a battered Ford to the nearest trout stream or football game. It seems less interested in telling where to go than in suggesting what to do upon getting there. Also new is Holiday's willingness to poke fun at the grimly thorough tourist...
Argentine wits, who particularly like to poke fun at Chileans, promptly predicted a "Drunkards' Revolution...
...there. A discovery which may furnish a better method of controlling the spread of sleeping sickness was announced recently by R. H. T. P. Harris, director of research in Zululand. He found the tsetse fly sensitive to pyrethrum (insect powder.) and veratrine (obtained from the root of the Indian poke). Especially effective was a .5% mixture of veratrine and cocoanut oil. Applied to a live animal, this mixture killed the attacking fly immediately. Since there are great stretches of land in Zululand which are unfit for agriculture, protesters are advocating that some of this area be set aside...