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...championship twice, that his entry in the ring, Briarcliff Model, was heavier (1,217 Ib.) than was nowadays popular. Judge Biggar passed his sensitive hands over well-meated ribs, examined shoulders, circled again & again. Finally he pointed to Briarcliff Model. There was applause. By now Farmer Thorne was an upstart Eastern breeder no longer. Technicians talked of "new contributions to animal husbandry," of "vastly improved stock," of a gentleman farmer who knew the game. Said Judge Biggar: "The best fat steer I've ever seen at the show...
...hero has been her King, bespectacled, spade-bearded, ruthless Mohammed Nadir Khan. In 1929 Afghanistan was a shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked two of Nadir...
...picked New Englanders. Last week the Roxbury trustees took the breathless step of electing a Westerner to succeed their late Headmaster Daniel Varney Thompson. They chose George Norton Northrop, 52, Wisconsin-born English teacher, onetime headmaster of Manhattan's Brearley School, and headmaster of Chicago's comparatively upstart Latin School (founded 1888) until he resigned last February because of financial troubles (TIME, Feb. 13). The appointment of Headmaster Northrop, urbane and unprofessorial, was pleasing to one Roxbury alumnus, Headmaster Samuel Smith Drury of St. Paul's School, who said: "Northrop is a teacher of light and leading...
...Chief Butler of England, had something to do last week. As 16th Duke of Norfolk and 27th Earl of Arundel, His Grace is the Premier Duke & Earl of the entire peerage. He is the British aristocrat. Beside the Ducal House of Norfolk, the Royal House of Windsor is an upstart. Last week His Grace the Duke of Norfolk was informed that a cinema theatre at Stirling, Scotland was flying not the Union Jack but the ancient flag of Scotland, boldly flaunting the Lion Rampant...
Governor von Kahr did join Hitler & Ludendorff ("at the point of a pistol," he afterwards testified). Enough other beer-soused Bavarians joined to make it necessary for a Reichswehr regiment to shoot several people. When Ludendorff & Hitler were tried for high treason the General was acquitted, the upstart given a light prison sentence from which he was released in a few months ("as insane," say enemies...