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...remarkable book (Histoire de I'Armée Allemande depuis I'Armistice) by Jacques Benoist-Méchin on the German Army revealed the conditions under which Germany had been living since the previous war, her despair, her sufferings, her will to revenge, her work, her success. . . . In France we ignored all that. . . . Munich was the basest of capitulations...
...Fleet-fisted but flat-faced Beau Jack, illiterate 21-year-old Negro: the world's lightweight boxing championship; by a right uppercut to the chin of Tippy Larkin, No. 1 contender for the title recently abdicated (because of bad hands) by Champion Sammy Angott; in the third round of a scheduled 15-rounder; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Protégé of Bobby Jones and 21 other members of the Augusta National Golf Club, where he used to work as shoeshine boy, Beau Jack got his crack at the title by knocking out Allie Stolz...
...come for some time," officials declared. "He has a real scientific interest, and not just a curiosity." First contact with the University for the professional wrestler was early in his career, when anthropologists measured him. Among other things, they found that the distance from his forehead to his chin is 22 inches...
...Vanderbilt Whitney (kin to one from New York); Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh (ermine, a diamond tiara, a diamond & emerald necklace & pendant, diamond earrings, eleven diamond bracelets); Mrs. William Ellerbe (blonde), Nedenia Hutton (blonde, too); Mrs. Harrison Williams (annually on the ten-best-dressed list), who remarked of her gown, chin up: "It's an old dress, but it's French...
...When at his first press conference after the North African invasion President Roosevelt talked of how he had to sit smilingly and take it on the chin while ignorant outsiders were clamoring for a second front when a second front had already been determined on, correspondents knew that he was not excluding Mr. Willkie from this category of ignorant outsiders...