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When he was a soldier of fortune in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, Mr. Barlow began inventing bombs. Thirteen years later he brought suit against the Government for infringement of six bomb patents. In 1932, while his suit was dragging on, he appeared in Washington and began to scare people. He confided in President Hoover and members of Congress that he had a machine which Senator Lynn Frazier later described as "powerful enough to destroy all property and life in a section a quarter of a mile wide and a mile long." So impressed was Senator Frazier that...
...best on his squad in an event, and still not display the big award. It takes at least fifteen men to play a football game, and they all get their letter, win or lose. To swim the nine events in a regular A. A. U. meet, thirteen or fourteen are needed. But they have to defeat the best swimmers in the country before they can be decorated...
Streamlining of English A has had its rewards. With the fewer exemptions allowed, thirteen per cent more Yardlings are enrolled. The course has been unified: there is a single textbook and less variation among sections. Most important of all the changes is the promotion of English A from its former status as a de-credited "fifth wheel" to a full-credit position beside the other Freshman courses...
...Thirteen years later, at 59, Irving returned to Madrid as his country's Minister, a man of letters who had perhaps mellowed too young and been boyish too long and whom his fierce contemporary, Fenimore Cooper, then regarded as something of a humbug. Sympathetic Biographer Bowers says his reports on the corrupt and precarious Spanish court made good reading for Secretaries of State Webster and Calhoun. But there is a hint of tragicomedy in the fact that Irving often got no replies, especially to his expense accounts, and that finally his stately letter of resignation was not even acknowledged...
...Bombay and got rich in the Chinese opium trade. Other famed Sassoons: the late Sir Philip of London, Britain's art-loving ex-Under Secretary of State for Air, and Siegfried of Wiltshire, foxhunting ex-poet. But Cousin Victor of Shanghai is the financial head of the family. Thirteen years ago, fleeing taxes, he transferred some $85,000,000 (Mex.) from British India to free Shanghai, where there is still no income tax. He bought real estate, built the city's biggest buildings, lives in begadgeted Oriental splendor atop his own Cathay Hotel. Lame, cynical, monocled Sir Victor...