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...meter relay, Eddie Farrell claims to have a team which is good to break eight minutes, though past performances scarcely warrant this prediction. If they do break eight minutes, however, the anchor man will find himself sprinting against Manhattan's baton carrier...
...Calcutta railway station many months ago promenaded one Amarendra Nath Pandey, a rich, youngish man who feared assassination. Warrant for his fear-someone (his stepbrother, he suspected) had dabbed lockjaw germs on the nosepiece of his spectacles. The germs had almost caused his death...
...prosecutor called the case ' unparalleled in the annals of crime in India in its enormity and well-planned scientific design . . . diabolical ingenuity.' Benayendra Pandey and Dr. Taranath Bayttachra were found guilty. The jury recommended mercy. Barked the judge: "The murder is too heinous to warrant clemency...
...unhappy, she occupied herself with public health nursing and decided that poverty, debility and big families went together. In 1914 she invented the phrase Birth Control and founded a magazine, The Woman Rebel, to propagate the idea. Dumfounded police, egged on by shocked churchmen and politicians, swore out a warrant for her arrest. She ran away to England...
Among royal warrant holders are John Lusty (turtle soup), Ashton & Mitchell, Ltd. (theatre tickets), Mary A. Bennett (stable brooms), R. G. Lawrie, Ltd. (bagpipes) and Merryweather & Sons, Ltd. (fire engines). Cars His Majesty buys from The Daimler Co., Ltd., rents additional cars from Daimler Hire, Ltd., sells old equipages to The Car Mart, Ltd.-all three motor firms holding royal warrants. Less candid are Their Majesties' little extravagances and their sale of whatnots. Thus Her Majesty probably spends more pounds buying Imperial Russian enamel and ikons from Wartski & Co. on Regent Street than on any other self-indulgence...