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...most of it was the stirring stuff of pioneering, typified by the track-laying gangs of wild Irishmen. They drove the rails of the U.P. west to meet the track-laying Chinese of the Central Pacific coming east, stood guzzling while the tracks were joined with a gold spike at Promontory Point, Utah...
...tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces of professional entertainment, notably by Miss Brazil (Louise Burnett), who can span three octaves without turning a hair, and Cuba's dionysian Miguelito Valdes, who suggests a three-power compromise between Cab Galloway, Orson Welles and Rube Bandleader Spike Jones...
...comely virgin who may catch his sickly brown eyes. So far, the only evidence of his age is his growing fondness for talking about the prowess of his youth. A favorite campfire story is about the time when he was wounded in the groin during a desert raid. To spike any calumnies against his manhood, he selected a maiden, married her on the spot, consummated the marriage that night...
Several sure points for the Crimson melted away when Wayne Homans pulled up at the one-mile mark with a severe spike injury which forced him back out of scoring position. However, in a personal stretch duel, he nosed out his brother, who was running for the opposition. Third and final meet of the season will come next Saturday with M.I.T...
...Army went out of its way last week to spike grisly rumors that fantastic numbers of U.S. soldiers have been dreadfully maimed. Brig. General Fred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery, reported: 1,194 soldiers have had limbs amputated;* 68 of these have lost two limbs. Rankin added, "There was not a single triple amputation nor was there a single quadruple, or so-called 'basket type' of case...