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Because too many baseball addicts would rather listen to free broadcasts of major-league games than pay money to see their own minor-league teams perform, baseball's white-mopped Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis last week ordered...
...unprecedented distinction of being made a member of the boxing boards of both England and France. He later acquired boxing rights at London's Royal Albert Hall and White City Stadium, two bullfight arenas in Madrid and Barcelona which he uses for boxing and wrestling, and became sports Tsar of the Continent...
...ancient little Sparrow Robertson, sports columnist of the Paris Herald, in whose writings it is a 5-to-1 bet that Promoter Dickson's name will appear on any given day. Dickson's secretary is Count Nicolas Ignatieff, son of Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered him to drive home, telephone the company...
...pamphleteer, author of 5? tracts on subjects like Shall I Be a Nun?, My Friend the Pastor, Fashionable Sin, Christ Lives On, which have sold 3,500,000 copies. The St. John the Baptist of the Legion of Decency movement, Father Lord drew up the morality code which Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays's office adopted in 1930 and which is supposed to ban from Hollywood films such subjects as sexual perversion, nudity, irreverent treatment of the clergy, miscegenation...
...thousands of Russians by his drastically obeyed order to "liquidate the kulak as a class." Let not Reader Ober rob the Dictator of terroristic laurels sweet to an Old Bolshevik whose proudest boasts are always about the number of years he spent in jail for crimes committed in Tsar Nicholas' reign.-ED. Sovereigns to Left Sirs: I note in your issue of Feb. 3, under the article "Make a Big V!" the statement: "In successive reigns the head of the Sovereign on coins and stamps faces alternately left & right. Thus Queen Victoria faces left, King Edward VII right, King...