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...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Three years ago the Bulgarian Chauffeurs' Association, in recognition of his many roadside repairs, elected Tsar Boris III their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled...
...celebrate the 25th anniversary of his start in the cinema industry. The Zukor Silver Jubilee, which began Jan. 7 and will last, according to Paramount publicity, for 17 weeks, reached its peak two weeks before the Champagne Waltz premiere. At a Hollywood super-dinner to Producer Zukor, Cinema Tsar Will Hays called Producer Zukor "a splendid American', a great leader," Leopold Stokowski conducted a 150-piece orchestra, Paramount's contract players joined in a floor show which, on a basis of combined salaries involved, was doubtless the most expensive ever staged...
...then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that dirty trick on Tsar Nicholas at Port Arthur. Why should not Dictator Stalin play it now in Russian revenge on Japan...
...player with the understanding that the major-league team which discovered him has an option on his services. Last week, a remarkable case in baseball law concerning a remarkable player was ended by a remarkable decision by woolly-haired and altogether remarkable Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's tsar...
...from being delighted by Feller's prowess, Cleveland was alarmed. Other clubs promptly offered to buy him. When Cleveland refused to sell, other club-owners raised the question of whether Cleveland really had any title to Feller in the first place. A minor-league club protested to Tsar Landis...