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...quarter-century, Josephine Baker of the Folies Bergere and other Parisian spots has been the cream in French coffee, but she never thought she could be the same kind of success in the U.S.A. This week La Baker was learning better. Billed into Broadway's big, brassy Strand Theater for a three-week run, she had made such a hit that she was thinking about a U.S. tour...
...year-old lay leader of the Catholics in his village, was ordered to pluck out his own beard strand by strand. When this process seemed too slow, his torturers burned it off, searing his face with a torch. After severe beatings, "the judge asked Li: 'Will you still be a Christian and act as head of the community?' He answered simply: 'As long as I breathe.' The judge gestured to a soldier near by, and Li Wan-fu was shot through the head...
Andover has played only one team in common with the freshmen. The Yardlings beat the Dartmouth freshmen. 75 to 68; Andover lost to the Green by six points. Bob Melville and Jack Strand are Andover's two stand-outs. Melville leads the team with a 17-point per game average, while the six foot, five inch Strand is an able man under the boards...
...London slums, as he tells it himself, arose a "bloody bookworm" named Fred Bason. At 15, Fred already had his own library, consisting of Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, Liza of Lambeth, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pears' Cyclopædia, the 1881 volume of the Strand magazine, Wild Wales and Two Years Before the Mast. He was much happier browsing through this library than he was lathering the "filthy faces [of] nasty old men" in a slum barbershop (his first job) or eating "sawdust and chips" at "the wrong end of a planing machine" (his second...
...newsstands were full of American papers, a Sunday edition about as big as a hundred European newspapers rolled into one, gay comics put up with clothespegs, stacks of magazines, stacks of books. I looked everywhere for an English magazine and found, tucked away in a corner, the Strand. I couldn't believe my own eyes. I did not know what had happened to it or to the world, it looked so poor, so thin and shabby. I bought, but not without misgivings, the huge Sunday edition, some comics for my children, and a strange-looking newsmagazine called TIME. Still...