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...Whisker. In Mombasa, Kenya, Africa, a team of Sikhs, whose religion requires them to wear full beards, won a tug-of-war contest, solemnly accepted the prize: individual bowls of shaving soap...
...tenth-round technical knockout, over California's inept Champion Andy Walker. ¶In Manhattan, the Manhattan College track team over Seton Hall, 29 to 27 2/7, in the 45-college I.C.4-A meet. In the non-collegiate feature of the event, Don Gehrmann won his 39th consecutive mile, a whisker victory over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The time (for both): 4:08.6. ¶ In New Haven, Conn., Australia's (and Yale's) Swimmer John Marshall, to set a new U.S. record for the 440-yd. free style. Marshall's time for the 20-yd. course...
...tried to bring about a truce between the Secretary and Congress. Their scheme was based on the frank and open approach; they admitted that the Secretary might be a cat, but felt he was such a wonderful cat, so cold of eye, so sharp of claw, so silky of whisker, so clever of mind that even the dogs would admire him if they just got to know him. The Secretary was just back from Europe, full of news of the Western Big Three meeting and of the twelve-nation North Atlantic Council. Would the Congress let him give them...
...when they are bad-as they were two weeks ago, at the Wanamaker Mile in Madison Square Garden-they look horrid. At the Wanamaker tape the photofinish crew took a picture that showed several fat official rumps blocking the camera's view of the cat's-whisker finish between Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt. The judges, relying on their own eyes, deadlocked 2 to 2, and Chief Judge Asa Bushnell, voting himself, declared Gehrmann the winner...
...French critic once wrote, "was distinguished by the arrival in Paris of Foujita and the tango." For a while they were almost equal sensations. An ambitious art student who had thrice been refused admission to the Tokyo Salon, Foujita rightly reasoned that his black bangs, Harold Lloyd glasses and whisker-fine brush drawings would please Parisians more than they did his fellow Japanese. He came to know Montmartre better than he had Fujiyama, strolled its steep streets in a leopard-skin hat, followed by a brace of tabbies on a leash...