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Hope finally is captured, but escapes and is trapped again in the Nazi's secret council chamber. By posing as a dummy in a display. Hope sits on a bicycle and looks scared while the enemy agents quarrel over their prowess of knife throwing. Hope, of course, becomes the object of their skill, but the bicycle comes in handy when he is discovered, for even Hope can toss it at his tormentors...
...Francisco, Umpire Hap O'Connor, who had umpired many baseball games in Japan, urged that baseball be continued to confound the Japs. Said he: "The Japs so envy us for our baseball prowess . . . that to call it off during wartime would be like a tonic to them. I think they would construe it to mean we were becoming panicky...
...Piccolo. The Sodality was founded in 1808 by eight undergraduates "for mutual improvement in music." It owes its hoary record not to the enthusiasm of its audiences but to an institutional tenacity for which Harvardmen are famed. In the 19th Century the Pierians were noted for their prowess with the pot rather than the piccolo. Minutes of many meetings read: "The Sodality met, practised, liquored and adjourned...
Last week stories of Lou Diamond's prowess in the Solomons began drifting back to the U.S. On Tulagi he demolished 14 Jap buildings with his trusty 81-mm. mortar. Then he turned to the colonel and bet him $50 he could put a mortar shot down the chimney of the 15th. Lou Diamond won his bet. He was not so successful when a Jap destroyer came prowling around the island one morning before artillery had been hauled in, and planes were not available. His shell fell in the water behind...
...country he horrified everyone by remarking that a sensible solution to the native problem would be wholesale intermarriage with the whites. The results would be fine, he pointed out, since they would combine the black man's magnificent physique with the white man's mental prowess. I understand that no one thought of quoting Shaw against himself by bringing up his reported reply to Isadora Duncan when she (according to the story) suggested that they have a child in order to combine her beauty with his brains. He is said to have refused her suggestion on the grounds...