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...Export Fatigue." Energetic Dr. Schmitt, a keen sportsman and a Mounted Group Leader of Equestrian S. S. Troops, was brought to bed by nervous exhaustion. He had worn himself out on a whirlwind tour of the Fatherland to drive home the slogan: "Stimulate Exports as a National Duty...
Among the other diversions which the curious little Isle of Man otters tourists is an annual automobile race. There one evening last May famed British Sportsman Kaye Don, in preparation for the race, was speeding around a corner at something like a mile a minute when his car scraped a Manxman's sedan, jumped a hedge, landed upside down 75 yd. away. Don's mechanic, Francis Taylor, was killed. When Kaye Don hobbled out of the hospital last week, he hobbled straight into an ancient courtroom where Manx Deemsters are sworn to uphold justice "as indifferently...
...three-day trial brought out that Don's car had no lamps, license, horn. Sportsman Don assumed full responsibility for taking the fatal trial run, said that he had done so at the suggestion of his young mechanic, that he knew that the steering gear was faulty...
After deliberating an hour and a half, the jury found Sportsman Don guilty. Don was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in a Manx jail...
Gossip engaged Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to Ethel du Pont, daughter of Sportsman-Horticulturist Eugene du Pont, director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Fumed the du Fonts: "There is absolutely nothing to the report." That evening the President's third son was a house guest at Miss du Pont's Wilmington debut...