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...other into angry knots. Dr. Ditmars watched impassively. "Let them fight it out," said he. "That's the only way they'll get used to each other." At length Beelzebub crawled off into a corner of the cage, his head bloody & swollen. Dr. Ditmars fed him a six-foot gopher snake, turned a hose on his conqueror...
Near Ball's Wharf, among the scattering of poor white farmers, lives Luther Harris, a great six-foot yellow giant whom all, even mules and bulls, respect. It is rumored that he and his relatives the Batkins, who live up river in the Hehonee swamps, are of Indian descent. It is an Indian that Luther would like to be so that his daughter Sis could break the color line, go off to government school at the Tohannock Indian reservation. Semmes Maiden, a young lawyer from Battleburg, the State capital, capitalizes on this desire of Luther's, persuades...
Died, Bangwan, 35, tribal chief of the saucer-lipped Ubangi; of Bright's disease; in Sarasota, Fla. A six-foot, tattooed warrior from the French Congo, Chief Bangwan drooped in his U. S. life of enforced ease. He left seven saucer-lipped relicts, three of them in John Ringling's Circus...
...Kansas City, Mr. & Mrs. William St. John had a son "the world's smallest baby"-1 lb., 14 in. Otherwise normal, the baby was nested among hot water bottles in a cardboard box, fed with a medicine dropper. Three six-foot uncles grinned. The Press, attempting to promote a competition, found a 1.19-lb. baby in Berlin, a 3-lb. baby, two months old, in Boone...
...Dream of the Century." Royal Air Force planes were buzzing high above, prepared to dive under the arch at the historic moment. Massed below the bridge was a fleet of 150 motorboats. A salute of 21 guns had begun, a band had burst into "Advance, Australia Fair!" and six-foot Premier Lang was advancing with his shiny pair of scissors-when suddenly a man on a horse spurred forward from the ranks of mounted police brandishing a sword...