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...years older than Jefferies and hadn't been fighting for four years. It was a 25 round bout. Up to the twenty-third round I had the edge on him and it was in that round that he knocked me out. It was quite a feather in my cap to be able to come back and fight 28 rounds after a long...
Here is another little feather for your cap...
Impudent, a Communist mail carrier did not doff his cap one morning last week in the presence of the Herr Direktor of the Vienna Post Office. Irate, the Herr Direktor bellowed, gave this minion a thoroughgoing rebuke...
Errata. Subsequent examination of the fossil discovered last autumn at Trinil, Java (TIME, Oct. 11), and reported everywhere as another skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman, showed the relic to be an elephant's knee cap. The "Southwestern Colorado Man," lately deduced from a set of Eocene teeth, was a myth, the teeth having proved to be those of an antique horse.?Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institution...
...TIME, Feb. 22). Time was when his father, John Bigelow, was U. S. Ambassador at Paris; and young Poultney is said to have paddled the first U. S. canoe that ever skimmed through the Iron Gates of the Danube. Nowadays, however, he putters and chops in a fur-eared cap; and, like Wilhelm II, is writing his autobiography. Recently, as one autobiographer to another, Poultney Bigelow reviewed the onetime Kaiser's latest work,* wrote of him as follows: "It was William II's good fortune to know in his youth only pure women and clean, brave, loyal, highly...