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...genius who, sometime in the 1860's, gave the Barbary Coast its apt title. The district then was already famed since the beginning of the Gold Rush as "Sydney Town"-named for the Australian ruffians, escaped convicts and ticket-of-leave men who clustered there around the earliest tent-dwelling Chileno (Spanish-American) harlots. These "Sydney Ducks" made up the city's first criminal element. Their grog-shops, dancehalls and bawdy houses became spawning grounds for swindlers, burglars, thugs, arsonists and murderers of infamous skill and boldness. In a 40,000 population there was an average...
Kublai, the mighty Khan who in the 13th Century ruled from the Yellow Sea to Poland, used to decree the pitching of his gorgeous Mongol tent every summer on the wide grasslands of Xanadu or Shangtu a few hundred miles north of Peking, which he enlarged and made his Capital. Last week this same region of "Xanadu" was news again. Its trading post Dolonnor ("Seven Lakes") had been captured by the "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July 24). Last week the great voice of War Lord Feng rumbled out of his barrel chest: "I command 100,000 soldiers...
Somebody in your neighborhood at home will have told you about the park's bears. There are some 700 black and silver-tipped grizzlies this year, so you are bound to see plenty. The park service runs tourist camps, but you can safely pitch your tent anywhere. (For ferocious bears, go to Katamai National Monument, Alaska, rivaled as a game range only by Belgian Congo's gorilla preserve.) There are more bison (1,000) and elk (10,000) in the park than the mountainous area could support in the winter if hunters did not kill...
...under heavy obligation to produce results at home. Well over 500 trade codes were reported in the making. Milliners, sugar men, baby-carriage dealers, jewelers, druggists, furniture retailers, lumbermen, clothing-makers, printers, milk evaporators, cleaners & dyers, waste-material dealers, paper men, silk manufacturers, farm-implement makers, scrap-iron men, tent makers, rabbit furriers, undertakers, oilmen, pretzel bakers & benders, underwear men, restaurateurs, coal men, steel men-all were in the throes of codification...
...half hour before the party, cleared up just in time for Mrs. Cordell Hull. Mrs. Cox and other U. S. Delegation wives to enter the Palace gardens without getting soaked. They and their husbands were presented to King George and Queen Mary under the great scarlet and gold durbar tent which is always dry. "The King and Queen were wonderful!" cried the wife of Canadian-born U. S. Senator Couzens, emerging from the tent. ''They are real people...