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Meanwhile in London orders were dispatched by His Majesty's Government to have over one million sand bags rushed from Egypt to be piled around and above the British Legation in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in case the Cheap Comedian should send bombing planes to blow Emperor Power of Trinity out of his palace. Punctually at 11:55 a. m. one day last week a pink silk veil covering the Emperor's box in Parliament was drawn aside and the shrewd, sharp-faced potentate addressed his people. He spoke in native dialect. Il Duce said afterward that...
...unconfirmed report said that farther upstream the City of Ichang (pop. 60,000) disappeared with a woosh, was "wiped out." But all this was merely the doing of the Yangtze ("Willow") River, sometimes called "The River of Golden Sand" by poets because of its yellow silt. Farther north the Hwangho or Yellow River, equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties...
...Clipper reached Midway in 9 hr. 13 min., stayed there two days before returning to Honolulu. On Sand Island, largest of the three coral atolls of the Midway Group, a small village hummed where once had been little but sandy scrub, jungle, coral rock. Trees, imported from Hawaii by the advance construction crew on the steamer North Haven, gave the place a look of lush tropical elegance...
...change from amateur to professional has affected my game in a way I really cannot describe. Perhaps it is a feeling of obligation to the public instead of the old idea of simply hitting the ball. ... I shall do better when I get acquainted with your greens. . . . The sand in these bunkers is heavier and coarser grained than the sort I am accustomed to at home. ... I fancy a heavier niblick might help...
Jimmy Northmore called his apparatus "The Magic Eye." First shots published by the Times were of Baseballer Jimmy Foxx striking out. Northmore snapped a series of Golfer Al Watrous getting out of a sand trap, the prints plainly showing the clubhead traveling ahead of the ball after the impact. Last fortnight at University of Detroit Stadium his "Magic Eye" followed Pole-Vaulter Walter Simmons over the bar (see cut). Last week the Times played up his shots of Socialite Mary Mitchell playing tennis, lions brawling in the Detroit...