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Yale's proudest son, oldtime Pulp Hero Frank Merriwell, 60, now being revived by his creator, "Burt L. Standish" (Gilbert Patten, who last week went to Camden, Me. to finish The Return of Frank Merriwell), has become a small-town editor (Millville, U. S. A.), dauntlessly crusades against vice, still fixes all comers with "a calm and steady gaze...
...which wander the Sure and the Alzette. Its tolerance extends to all sects and races, including Jews. On Sunday mornings a band plays in the main square of the capital and the people stroll round & round. The highest officer in the Army is a captain. Prince Felix's proudest possession is The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, personally presented by President Roosevelt last autumn. Luxembourg's canny, genial Foreign Minister Joseph Bech (who resigned as Premier because he thought he had held the job too long), likes to swap stories with newspapermen. The newspapermen like...
Nobody loves animals more than the English. They keep pythons in London flats, monkeys in the East End and dogs everywhere. One of the proudest days in Ornithologist Neville Chamberlain's life was when, during one of his customary early morning bird-watching walks with his wife in St. James's Park, he spotted a rare, migratory, dark-pied wagtail duck...
...some of the proudest Morgan nurselings (like General Electric) had long since outgrown their Morgan links, were financing themselves from depreciation...
...model for his students, General Beaver never has tasted liquor, coffee, tea or soft drinks, at 56 still rises at 5 each morning. His proudest boast is that one April day in 1936, when a tornado struck Gainesville, 400 of his cadets took charge of the town and, without food and in a driving rain, held on for eight hours, relieving distress, saving lives...