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...collection of water holes and mud huts known as Sassa Baneh. There lean, wily Ras Nassibu had stationed legions of his best men, entrenched in an elaborate series of fortifications dug under direction of the onetime Turkish General Wehib Pasha. Four columns under General Graziani were attempting to surround the town, batter it to submission. Charging again & again through thorn bushes and over huge boulders, men from Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco fell never to rise again, for leading the central column under a General Frusci was a regiment composed largely of Italian-American volunteers...
Concentrators' reports on the Field of Psychology surround the Department with no rosy glamour of praise. Only in research is the personnel fully qualified. Judged by this criterion alone the field at Harvard is the equal, if not the leader of any other department in the country. This, however, nearly exhausts the favorable comment on the Field as a whole...
...innumerable superstitions that surround the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England, one is that the same horse never wins two years in a row. Fortunately, the horses who run the race are unacquainted with the legends upon which their admirers base predictions of its outcome. Winner of the Grand National of 1935 was Major Noel Furlong's Irish gelding Reynoldstown, ridden by his son Frank, who was delighted because first prize ($32,000) enabled him to marry. Last week Frank Furlong, married to Pamela Kingsmill and fatter than a year ago, was too heavy to ride his father...
Sumo matches are announced by an official in black silk who holds a fan in front of his nose while he squeaks the names of the contestants. When sumo champions retire they have their long hair cut, sit behind the four pillars that surround the ring, act as judges in disputes. Chief referee in all sumo championship matches is Okiaze Yoshida, whose position has been hereditary in his family for 23 generations...
Laughing Italian. A tedious and complex but potentially dangerous dispute was opened as to whether the steps taken to menace and surround Italy with war boats by Britain have been derived from the League and its Covenant, as is contended by London, or whether they have been, as Rome contends, "hostile acts" by Britain. This abstruse question was the subject of a 1,000-word memorandum by Premier Mussolini to the League last week, and Captain Eden was understood to be preparing a reply of equal length. Across the Council's green table he and Fascist Chief Delegate Baron...