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...further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball player, baseball pitcher, football halfback, a proficient billiardist, a clever tumbler, a boxer and wrestler, a fencer, weight lifter and adagio dancer, she could only be described by appalled reporters as a "wonder girl." Last week, Wonder Girl Didrikson had cause for wonderment herself. The Amateur Athletic Union suspended her from amateur competition in the U. S. and then promised...
Human proof of an effective antidote for cyanide poisoning was working as an orderly in a San Francisco county hospital last week. Cuthbert Reiveley, 24, onetime medical student at the University of Michigan, drank about 15 grains of potassium of cyanide in a tumbler half full of water, at once told some friends, fell unconscious. They rushed him to an emergency hospital where Dr. Raymund Joseph Millzner was presiding. Dr. Millzner judged from Cuthbert Reiveley's blue lips and fingernails what had happened, washed out the patient's stomach with a solution of baking soda. Sure enough...
...results. Powell invades Francis' house for a midnight call and more light comedy. The police raid farcically and in the same vein Powell does a bit of broken field running through the massed forces of the law. Powell's gestures seem modeled on those of a stage tumbler. He frequently washes his hands in air, as though drying them on an imaginary handkerchief. He clicks his heels and bows from the waist. All this is apparently to indicate a "high state of civilization in Europe." The conversation reaches what is intended as a climax in his account...
...Philadelphia, because the liquor ran out at a party, John Cupo boasted that he would willingly drink grain alcohol neat. Host John Boccalupo gave his guest a tumbler of alcohol. Gulping it down, John Cupo gasped, gagged, sputtered and finally spewed it out on the floor. Shaking with laughter Host Boccalupo tossed a lighted match at John Cupo, who burst into flames, was severely burned...
Until he came to Washington, proud Sr. Morales had never seen ice outside of a tumbler. The slipperiness of ice on an F Street sidewalk was new to him. Most grievously was he insulted to see in print for all the world to read, how he, Carlos Morales, had slipped on such ice, crashed with a mighty thud, required the assistance of four men to hoist him upright again...