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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When not engaged in chemistry, the Mauchs invent other contrivances. Their most formidable invention was a submarine in which Bobby took the maiden voyage. When the ship failed to rise after a minute, Billy rescued his brother by diving after him. In addition to being inventors, the Mauchs are pugilists, speculators, sportsmen, collectors and litterateurs. As litterateurs, the Mauchs have written several scenarios for themselves and other Warner actors. None has so far been accepted. Their tastes in reading are catholic. Recently Billy Mauch read Alexis Carrel's Man, the Unknown...
After the revolution of 1908, one of the early sanitary problems which modernizing Young Turks took up was disposal of the Constantinople dogs. No Turk could be found with the heart to kill the creatures. In 1910, about 40,000 of them were herded onto boats, ferried out to the rocky, uninhabited Island of Oxia in the Sea of Marmora, there left to starve (see cut). For months their piteous barkings echoed across Marmora to the Anatolian shore. A few kindly citizens rowed out with food, but the task was hopeless...
...evening last week Apiarist Van de Poele went to Boston's Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
...England, toward the end of the Century, a boatbuilder named Pocock, among whose products was a craft which Explorer Sir Henry Stanley used for navigating rivers in Africa, took to building racing shells. His son Frederick Pocock built shells for Eton, Oxford, Cambridge. Another son, William, became the world's sculling champion, crew coach at Westminster School. Frederick Pocock's son 'George won the United Kingdom Handicap at 17, in a 26-lb. pine shell he had built himself. His daughter Lucy was women's sculling champion of England in 1910-11. In 1911, George Pocock...
Bill Feiler, took the two-mile race by 50 yards, with Wisconsin's Lloyd Cooke second; then climaxed his day and Drake's by anchoring Drake's distance medley relay team to its first relay victory since...