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...eighth session within three years (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.) of the League of Nations Advisory Commission on the Traffic in Opium flowered into an impassioned poppy pow-wow last week...
...shoot it out of my hand, it's yours." After some wrangling, the details of the wager were satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Beres took his place, holding the 50? aloft between thumb and forefinger. His friend put a shell in his shotgun, drew a careful bead. Pow! went the gun. The coin, dented by dozens of buckshot, careered away. . . . With it went the end of Proprietor Beres' thumb...
...pow'r that lies in him is new in nature...
...with a cargo of celebrities: Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian pianist; Clarence Dillon, who recently paid $146,000,000 for the Dodge Motor Car Co (TIME, Apr. 13); Colonel James A. Logan Jr., who has been unofficial onlooker for the U. S. at nearly every pow-wow of European diplomats for the past few years, and his bride (see MILESTONES) ; Miss Belle Baruch; and the unobtrusive Miss Collins, quietly sleeping in cabin F53-54 with a bunch of white gardenias reposing in a vase on her dresser...
...Pow" went a pistol in the Chicago Coliseum a few hours later. Three runners leapt forward; fast they went, though they had a mile and three-quarters to go. In front was a light skinny one, this Nurmi; behind him came Joie Ray, Fred Liewendahl. Lap after lap they padded. At the tenth they were only two; Liewendahl had quit. At the twentieth Nurmi looked over his shoulder at lurching, wavering Ray. Then he set his eyes on the tape, flashed through it, trotted off to his dressing room. Eighty yards behind came Ray, crossed the finished, collapsed into...