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...Belmont Park (L. I.), the smartest racing crowd of the year saw Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Singing Wood win the richest race-the $103,300 Futurity for two-year-olds-at odds of 12 to i with Sir Thomas, a 50-to-1 shot, second by a head and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Roustabout, third...
...light on the trajectory of human intelligence after birth came from the University of California's Dr. Harold E. Jones, who stated that people are smartest at the age of 21, after which they grow duller...
...Morrisonism of the week London papers printed separately under sly little heads. Someone, they reported, mentioned to Mr. Morrison the name of Dr. Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh). the man who is often called "Europe's Smartest States-man," a leading founder of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, who has put that State at the head of the Little Entente...
...vulgar but generally funny collection of black outs. They concern a young racketeer (James Cagney) who finds to his endless delight that he cannot be put in jail for stealing pictures for the tabloids. He also finds that his brother journalists are smart but no match for him. Smartest of them is a rowdy sob-sister (Alice White). When she flusters him, Cagney bluntly knocks her down. When a bereaved husband comes to shoot him he hides in the women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert Emmet O'Connor) visits...
Month ago the Petrol Diplomat reached Teheran and immediately began a series of secret conferences with the Shah. Be fore his arrival the League of Nations, through Dr. Eduard Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," had laid the groundwork for a new agreement (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week came the announcement of a preliminary agreement between Sir John and Persia's Shah: Anglo-Persian will in future pay the Persian Government 21% royalties instead of 16% and will turn over 2½% of the profits of its subsidiaries. Persia on its part will grant the com pany...