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Peace was finally concluded last week, amid typical, more-than-Oriental magnificence. In a gilded coach behind four arching white horses, guarded by 32 men in white uniforms, glistening breastplates, black thigh-boots and plumed helmets, Elaine Walker, President of Culver City's chamber of commerce, paraded down Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Stepping between crowd-banks to the theatre entrance, he was greeted by Hollywood's Olesen and California's burbling Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor...
Performing in the title role of MGM's Badman of Brimstone, Cinemactor Wallace Beery dashed into a frontier set. brandishing a six gun in either hand, tripped, fired a blank cartridge into his thigh...
...first season. He has defeated every leading amateur in the world. Last year in the French champion ships, fortified by a cleaner backhand stroke he had learned from William Tatem Tilden, he beat Fred Perry for the title. Then the following month at Wimbledon he strained a thigh muscle and lost to Perry in the final...
...mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that the Weems "funeral" was only propaganda, that Frank Weems was still alive, but their pooh-poohing paled beside a published photograph of Willie Sue Blagden exposing a plump thigh bearing a large black & blue mark...
...bird, no other mammal can, but five fishes are living dynamos. Of these the biggest and most potent is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a wormish monster which lives in the freshwater marshes of northern South America, grows over 8 ft. long and thick as a man's thigh, can send a shock through 28 ft. of water and stun the largest animal, including...