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With what sportswriters regarded as an extraordinary disregard for professional conventions, Pugilist Schmeling announced that he would live up to his end of his bargain. Backed by Madison Square Garden Corp., which publicized the fight, and printed tickets for it, he went into training for a month at Speculator, N...
Japanese screens, sculpture, paintings and primitive tiles may be seen in the Denman W. Ross '75 Memorial Exhibition now on view in the Fogg Museum. Although filling two rooms, this exhibit represents only a fraction of the oriental curios collected by Dr. Ross during his frequent expeditions to the East...
Supplementing her $60 a week, Maman Savage took pupils in voice, French diction, dramatics. Today she lives with her beauteous, red-haired daughter May, also a Metropolitan chorus girl, in a Riverside Drive penthouse full of souvenirs, curios and whatnots. On its terrace she raises lettuce, tomatoes, weeds which she...
Ever since the Portuguese, Dutch and British first started raiding the jungles of West Africa for slaves to work their new colonies, the hideous gods and little demons of primitive Africa have been turning up as curios in the homelands of the traders. Not until shortly after the turn of...
*In the single Chinese province of Anhwei, 250 miles remote from Nanking, 3,000,000 Chinese were last week reported starving. "It is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and Death everywhere," reported George Birch, China Inland Mission worker. "Two-thirds of this area is without food...