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...mathematical wizard and armed with a letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment of cogitation, tell him what day of the week it had been...
Four field events, the first of the University Handicap Track Meet, were held yesterday afternoon in the Carey Cage under the supervision of track coaches Jaakko Mikkola and Bil Neufeld...
...want Bil-1-l-bo!" cried the united Mississippi delegation...
Technical high spot of this show is Bil Bal Bul, the Little Acrobat, worked by four operators on 20 strings. He hunches himself to gather momentum as he swings in air, never fumbles when he clutches at the crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli...
...strapping, six-foot Irishman elected State's Attorney on an anti-racket platform and a hard-hitting little criminal lawyer named Raber were the spearheads of the attack. Ahead lay the city's first real chance to get convictions and break a spell which holds a bil lion dollars worth of business in thrall to crooked labor unions and their underworld "gorillas...