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...artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road east from Harar and Giggiga, struck at Hargeisa and Oadweina-shack towns used by herdsmen and caravans as watering and market places...
...Mormon Meteor once around the course. Then in a twinkling, the wooden markers (set at soft, intervals) became a picket fence, the flat track a gigantic bowl of salt. Round & round he whirred. In less than 15 minutes, a huge blackboard was raised outside the timekeeper's shack: "New World's Record for 50 kilometers-172.915 miles per hour." An eyeblink later, another board went up, marking a new record for 50 miles. Then, in quick succession, 100 kilometers, 100 miles, 200 kilometers, 200 miles, 500 kilometers...
...Washington. D. C., a census taker stumbled into a wooden shack, found a grizzled old man living with eight pet canaries. His name: Daniel Webster. His age: 74. His occupation: carpenter. His collateral ancestor: the late (1782-1852) Senator from Massachusetts...
...Frazer, a propertied man, also something of a philanthropist, was vice president of the Moneywasters. He was also operator of the Rhythm Night Club, a big (200 by 40 ft.) shack of wood and corrugated iron on St. Catherine Street in Natchez' darktown. He leased the building from Mrs. C. Ferriday Byrnes, who rates even higher among Natchez whites than her tenant did among Natchez Negroes. The Negroes who went to Moneywaster dances at the Rhythm were mostly laborers, carpenters, waiters, servants in the best homes of Natchez...
...Nimblest of the three disturbers of the Schaefer peace was Shack-Dweller Henry Frees, a onetime acrobat, who once used an $800 settlement for an injury to his arm to run for mayor of Belleville, Ill. He lost both the $800 and the election, went back to his shack. Emerging as a Congressional candidate, Mr. Frees stood on his head while he made campaign speeches, promised, if elected, to do backflips up the Capitol steps. His resounding advice to Congressman Schaefer: "If he doesn't play golf I think he should ought to learn. In case fishing...