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...22?Hearing of the twelve-million-pound claim v. Great Britain of the heirs of onetime Sultan Abdul Hamid II for properties in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine & Cyprus; before a mixed tribunal with a Danish president, one Turkish and one British judge; at Istanbul...
...hunter) and goes into the jungle to get the specimen himself. In this way he obtained the only veritable man-eating tiger to reach the U. S. alive. The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed...
...Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu). But Mrs. Lillie West Brown?who preferred to be known as "Amy Leslie"? stayed on at the Daily News as dramatic critic for 40 years. Last week, with fanfare and accolade, the Daily News announced the retirement of the oldest U. S. woman theatre reviewer. "Think...
...Grand Master S. Tartakower of Poland: an international Chess Masters Tournament at Liege, Belgium, defeating Mir Sultan Khan of India in 37 moves by a Bishop & Knight ending in the eleventh round...
Shipwrecks of U. S. vessels on the coast of Oman being few indeed, the Sultan is content to let this Yankee clause stand...