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...Hari tried unsuccessfully to hide his identity as victim in a blackmail plot under the pseudonym of "Mr. A." He saved himself $750,000, but had to call upon the British to attain his throne a year later. Since then Moslems in Kashmir have complained bitterly that all the best government places go to Hindus. Last autumn British troops saved his throne when the Mohammedans revolted. Reports last week said that 5,000 Hindus and Moslems have been killed in skirmishes since then. As fresh troops were being rushed across the Himalayas to save his throne again, Sir Hari suddenly...
...volumes, 1.353 carefully documented pages, Researcher Porter has stored all the available facts about the first & greatest of the Astor dynasty. Born the son of a butcher in the little German village of Waldorf, John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) became "first business man in America to attain colossal wealth." Author Porter considers him preeminent in his period, says: "Indeed it is doubtful whether in the art of buying and selling he has ever been approached, much less surpassed...
...little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even top-column notice in Boston's most conservative paper...
Further, he is supposed to attain this knowledge from his college work. By majoring in such fields as government, economics, and history they assume that sufficient broadness can be gained to qualify the young hopeful for this truly important position. Any man of such talent would immediately find a place which had in it a far greater future, at least from a worldly point of view...
Washburn's film, the first ever to be made, shows the way in which hardy mountaineers attain the summit of this lofty mountain, the upper ridges of which are almost continually swept by furious storms, which render the peak virtually inaccessible during more than four-fifths of the year. Washburn, along with W. C. Everett '33, camped out at altitudes of 10,000, 12,900, and 15,000 feet on one occasion struggling through snow up to their waists at an altitude of 14,000 feet, where the thin air is a great cause of weakness...