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...clarification of that somewhat hazy statement Producer DeMille was located in the roar of the Metropolitan Theater last night, surrounded by what turned out to be a bevy of the local gazetteers...
...reached the car and passed the chocolate to the man in the driver's seat a 75 mm. shrapnel shell burst right beside him with a deafening roar. A steel splinter drove through 'his back, killing him instantly. The man beside him crumpled up mortally wounded. Of the two men in the rear seat one writhed with a shattered leg, the other was barely hurt. Before the occupants of the other cars could reach their friends, a second shell, which did little damage, threw them flat on their faces...
There was a great roar as Max Schmeling and Harry Thomas clambered through the thick maroon ropes that enclose the smoky, brightly-lit boxing ring. Referee Arthur Donovan mumbled orders in the centre of the ring, the fighters moved back to their corners, and the bell clanged. Both came out in a crouch, eyed each other for a moment. Then Thomas cracked Schmeling with a tentative left, first blow of an uncommonly bloody fight...
...What a queer feeling when from the windows of your apartment you hear the roar of a Chinese plane-hear the Japanese anti-air craft guns- see the red and white tracer bullets some of which seem to be coming in your direction-to see the searchlight of the Japanese ships trying to pick up the plane and later actually seeing the Chinese plane not over 250 yd. from your apartment...
...Pimlico racetrack, near Baltimore, War Admiral went to the post in the Pimlico Special a 1-to-20 favorite, shortest odds of the year at a major track. There was an excited roar from 15,000 throats as War Admiral, usually first from start to finish, could not get out in front, trailed a mediocre horse named Masked General all the way to the home stretch. Then Masked General ran out and War Admiral squeezed home a lucky winner, to bring his 1937 earnings to $166,500. Owner Riddle announced he was retiring him for the season...