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...officered by Britons. Total with reserves: about 560 men. Beside these stood another 560 native mounted police with rifles, machine guns, British officers. Their leader was Lieut. Colonel Arthur Reginald Chater, oldtime desert fighter. Governor and Commander in Chief of the protectorate is Vincent Goncalves Glenday, 49, an Oxonian sportsman careerist in Britain's colonial service...
Died. Sir Abe Bailey, 75, hearty South African financier, sportsman, politician; in Cape Town. Lured to the Transvaal by gold, this "world's greatest gambler" speculated his way in & out of many a fortune, helped to bring about the union of South Africa. He was decorated for his part in the Boer War, was knighted in 1911. In 1937 Cape Town, believing Sir Abe dead after his leg had been amputated, dropped its flags to half-mast. Next year the doughty oldster lost his other leg, forestalled half-mastery by issuing a bulletin announcing that he was doing fine...
...Petit Parisien, which announced the introduction of compulsory physical training. To Vichy, after escaping the Germans three times as an artillery captain, went France's famed "Bounding Basque," tennis star Jean Borotra, to become Secretary General of Physical Education. Insisting that he is no politician, only a sportsman, Borotra announced that physical education would henceforth be as important as intellectual education, surmised that his job would be difficult because of the nation's "softness and previous indifference...
...called Britain's best-informed tank and anti-tank man, "Wizard" because his knowledge of gunnery is so well-rounded he is also an anti-aircraft ace. Spectacled, dark, pinched, with a close-clipped mustache, he looks more like a "City" broker than the soldier-sportsman that he is (in the Army since 1902). His fox-hunting Irish father was Master of the Pau pack (supposed descendants of hounds with which Wellington's officers hunted in Spain). Sir Alan, who was born and raised in France, is one of the Empire's finest wing shots and anglers...
Married. Sonja Henie, 30, chubby, figure-skating cinemactress, ice-revue star; and Sportsman Daniel Reid Topping, 29, tin-plate heir, principal stockholder of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team; she for the first time, he for the third; in Chicago. Choked Sonja: "I have never been so happy...