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...next relay point. Re-lit, the flame crossed the Hungarian border at 6 a. m., reached Budapest in the evening. Next day, its progress through Austria was the occasion for a great Austrian Nazi demonstration (see p. 24). At Prague, Czechoslovakian President Eduard ("Europe's Smartest Little Statesman") Benes found in a change of runners the theme for a speech about Olympic Ideals and World Peace. Scrupulously photographed during its progress by members of the staff of 150 cameramen who are helping Cinemactress Riefenstahl make a prodigious Olympic Film to be released next year, the torch crossed the German...
Regarded as the smartest man in Spain today is obese and blotchy onetime Premier Manuel Azana. When he saw things slipping beyond his control as Premier, he got himself elected President of Spain with a salary of 1,000,000 pesetas yearly and another 1,000,000 for the expenses of his frog-faced self and young wife...
Tradition of the Ascot Gold Cup, smartest sporting event of London's spring social calendar, forbids cheering at the finish. Another tradition of the race, 2½ miles over a hilly course, is that U. S.-bred horses lack stamina to win it. Only one to do so was James R. Keene's Foxhall (named after his son, famed Poloist Foxhall Keene...
...data for their campaign. General Foods gave the young firm a terrific boost when it handed Salesman Benton six big food accounts on his birthday in 1932, still entrusts it with a handsome slice of its $10,000,000 annual advertising budget. One of Benton & Bowles's smartest stunts was to cash in on 1933 Repeal sentiment for Adolf Gobel, Inc. (frankfurters). Tired of writing about food, food, food, B. & B. called up 200 women in Manhattan, found only seven in favor of the 18th Amendment. Promptly they spread copy predicting return of beer and plugging its time-honored...
...pages long, Truth is illustrated by photographs of Indian Barnett before and after marriage. In one set he is a dirty old codger living in a squalid hut. In the other he has a shave, a new coat, a mansion, Anna Laura Lowe. Her conclusion: "Jackson Barnett was the smartest and best one of the Indians. He married better and lived better than all the other Indians combined. His eyesight, hearing, memory and intelligence were excellent to the end. He lived a useful and active life until the end." Of her late mate's guardians, says Mrs. Lowe...