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Only a half-dozen first-rate marksmen?men who consistently break more than 95 out of 100 targets?have won the Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week???high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing...
...from one of his banks and called for more donations. Edward Stephen Harkness gave $1.000,000. Fourteen other less rich men each gave $100,000 or more. The whole community gave the rest?a total of $8.000,000. Result was the six new buildings dedicated last week???Lakeside Hospital, Leonard C. Hanna House (private hospital cases), and Mather, Harvey and Lowman Houses (nurses' dormitories...
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was re-elected President of China last week???not by the Chinese people, for they have no vote, but by the fifth Congress of his "People's Party" in Nanking...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, famed English humorist, looked back over his year's connection with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company, commented: "They paid me $2,000 a week???$104,000?and I cannot see what they engaged me for. . . . Twice during the year they brought completed scenarios of other people's stories to me and asked me to do some dialog. Fifteen or sixteen people had tinkered with those stories. The dialog was quite adequate. All I did was touch it up here and there. . . . They were extremely nice to me, but I feel as if I have cheated them...
Prince Henri, Count of Paris and Dauphin of France, married a Princess of Brazil in Italy last week???such at least was the way in which thousands of enthusiastic Royalists thought of the bright, expensive pageant which passed over a great carpet 200 yards long across Palermo's Cathedral Square...