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Visiting an R. O. T. C. camp at Baltimore's Fort Meade, Assistant Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring slept in a squad tent on an army cot canopied with mosquito netting. Said he: "I like to sleep out in the open again. When I was Governor of Kansas I'd always sleep in a tent while visiting the National Guard regiments...
...Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute. Over to the Army tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress's first tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century of Progress. Around her neck hung the 44½ carat Hope...
...none was more celebrated than "Sweet Marie'' Schmidt. She did not pretend to be in the same class with Mollie Walsh, the Wonder Girl of White Pass Trail, who ran a beanery and was sworn to be as morally clean as the snow that fell on her tent. Sweet Marie was a dance hall girl and prettier than most. When she lifted her plaintive voice in song, she could coax more nuggets out of sourdoughs in one night than Deadeye Olga, Yukon Lucy or Moosehide Kate could in a month...
...circus performance, Alda May Cole, 19, stood balancing three lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...
...Vera Cruz last month a circus elephant to which French Consul Marcel Bourguin was feeding bananas suddenly knocked him down, stepped on him, tossed him across the tent (TIME, April 23). Last week in Toluca when one Miguel Solorzano fed the creature banana peels the same elephant trampled him to death...