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Shortly after the Civil War an undersized, red-headed youngster, son of a local newspaper editor and Confederate veteran, used to be known around Lynchburg, Va. as "Pluck" because, with eyes blacked and nose bloody, he had a dogged way of fighting on & on against awful odds. Last week the Senate paid handsome tribute to "Pluck," now a small hawk-nosed Senator of 75. By a vote of 54-to-9 it passed his bill to reform the national banking system and tighten up loose screws in the Federal Reserve machine...
Hitlerites staged their first Berlin mass meeting since the "Christmas Truce" last week, after attending the funeral of a young Fascist killed in a New Year's Day riot. "If our leader had been Chancellor when this Hitler youngster was killed," cried Baldur von Schirach, "50 Communist leaders would have decorated lamp posts next day! The soul of this dead lad is mightier than the von Schleicher Cabinet...
...similar occurrence gained national publicity last month for a publication called Grit. It was in Grit that a North Carolina youngster spotted a picture of President Hoover's strangely missing friend Col. Raymond Robins, leading to the discovery and return of Col. Robins (TIME, Nov. 28). Proudly last fortnight Grit celebrated its 50th birthday...
States during his quarter-century of barnstorming with Gates's Flying Circus. Many a youngster still in his 'teens may remember the flashy posters screaming about the "Spine Chilling, Nerve Tingling'' feats of Gates's "Airdevils" to be seen at the fair grounds, the race track, a certain cow pasture, or whatever passed for a flying field...
...record the song of every U. S. bird. Ambitious Albert Brand would need several lifetimes were he to pursue with his microphone the twitterings of all the birds whose skins, stuffed but unmounted, have been coming to rest in the Museum during his absences this year. A nature-loving youngster named Lionel Walter Rothschild began collecting them in England half a century ago. Coming of age in 1889, he founded a zoological museum on his ancestral estate at Tring, Hertfordshire. No bait for birds, the Rothschild gold was lure enough to set men snaring them in the trees, brush, jungles...