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...lectures for hours. He has written a book, Bait-Casting, published by Longmans, Green in ordinary and de luxe binding. He is about to publish another. "Smiling Bill" Vogt is one of those rare men who have almost precise coordination of sight, thought and movement. He has a powerful wrist and a leathery thumb which let him dispense with reel brakes, drags or level winding devices. He can hold a fish even if its fight bends his rod nearly double. At 75 feet with a fly-rod and line he can slice a peeled banana or flick ashes from...
Spurred, Tokyo's Central Police Station assigned a squad of detectives to the case. Last week the mystery was solved. Detective Tokuda of the Central Office discovered a gold ring and wrist watch belonging to one of the robbed houses in a pawn shop. Quickly he summoned a cordon of police, rushed at dawn into the home of Toyoshi Nakamura, a young chauffeur. Faced by scowling gendarmerie, Chauffeur Nakamura confessed all. His duties kept him busy from 5 p. m. until dawn, he said. He had robbed the geisha houses for money with which to attend dance halls...
Once when Gilbert Stroud, aged 7, was fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker...
...self-winding wrist watch a "perpetual motion" watch that winds itself, somewhat on the principle of the pedometer, is to be given free to a student of the University next month, according to an announcement by the Perpetual Self-Winding Watch Co., New York City, manufacturers of this startling new invention...
...Kelsey 3G, and W. A. Robinson '31 put up an exciting match, and the latter's fine defense amounted to more than Kelsey's victory would indicate. The best bout of the evening was between P. N. Vonckx '31 and Nathaniel Warner '30 Vonckx, with a bad wrist, was forced to default after about six minutes, after a splendid exhibition of game wrestling, Coach Lewis refereed...