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Swedes awaited eagerly last week the opening by King Gustaf V in his Royal Palace of an Exhibition of Relics & Curiosities, including "deformed bullets extracted from the wounds of Swedish kings" and a royal Swedish watch charm in the shape of a gold rat trap...
...mustard-colored suits, Kipling, Dickens. He envies Manoel Garcia, who taught singing until his 100th year and then became a cigar. Copey phobias are drafts, coughing, lateness, being photographed, being asked to write prefaces to books by former pupils, and fire. He always swore that Hollis was a fire trap...
...every August, with eleven freight carloads of clay targets (made of sand and plaster of Paris) and $32,000 worth of shotgun shells, are held the most important trapshooting events in America. The Vandalia firing line is nearly a mile long. Shooters fire in squads of five over 27 traps, each manned by a corps of trap loaders, pullers, referees, scorers, with expert accountants in the manager's office to keep track of scores. After a week of minor events, Vandalia's shooters gathered last week for the biggest prizes in the two oldest events, the Preliminary Grand American Handicap...
Policemen the world over are instinctively suspicious of books owned by Communists. Last week Cuban Reds turned this police foible into a deadly trap...
...tiger. The tiger gets the python by the throat. The python coils around the tiger's middle. The tiger shakes himself loose and goes to get a drink of water. Finally Frank Buck captures both, the python by hauling him into a cage, the tiger by building a box-trap out of logs. Alert cinemaddicts will guess that actually the tiger and the python were both captured before their fight, recaptured later for the camera...