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Bruised and shaky, with a huge black ring around one eye, Fisticuffer Max Baer had a haircut, a shave and manicure, commiserated with his 238-lb. brother Buddy Baer, who had lost a decision to a Montana heavyweight named Ford Smith right after the big fight.* He wished Louis luck, announced that he would retire to raise white-faced cattle on his California ranch...
Although all men who visit this holy place grow beards because there is not water enough to shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...
...months had taught him much. Soon he would doff the disguise and go back to Russia. Possible candidates for whippings and roastings drifted through his mind. As for his people, he would change their mode of dress, force them to shave their beards, compel them to smoke. A navy second to none and Russia modernized. . . . All in good time...
Most of his story is concerned with his excitingly sensible struggles against the traditional, noble boobery of muddled old England. Now that it is safely over, he admits it was a close shave. "Reckless and unintelligent handling brought us almost to the rim of catastrophe ... we were saved largely by the incredible folly of our foes." The thing that nearly got England down, says Lloyd George, was the submarine campaign. He implies that if the Admiralty had had their way, by June, 1917, England, and consequently the Allies, would have been spurlos versenkt. The Admiralty wanted more destroyers...
Next morning Mr. Farley detrained at Kansas City, got a shave, went to 9 o'clock mass, attended a breakfast of 70 potent Democrats. "Many people won't believe me," he told them, "but this trip is not connected with politics in any way." Thereafter he attended a double-header baseball game, a national convention dinner given by his brother Elks, a theatre. Next morning he kissed a few babies, made a 20-minute rush inspection of the post office, shook hands with all employes, demanded "How are you, young fellow?" or "Are they treating you all right...