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Straddling mountains is an exhilarating pleasure to King Albert (see cut). Straddling the "language issue" is an excruciating, chronic pain to Belgium's successive prime ministers...
Died. John J. ("Jack") Donahue, 38, famed musicomedian and hoofer (Sunny, Rosalie, Sons o'Guns), magazine fictioneer (Letters of a Hoofer to his Ma), producer (Lost Sheep); after a chronic infection of the kidneys, sinus, heart had caused his collapse while playing Cincinnati in Sons o' Gum; at his home in Manhattan. Born in Charlestown, Mass., he began his theatrical career at 14 by appearing in local amateur nights. Subsequently medicine show entertainer, smalltime vaudeville dancer, he had his first big success in Sunny (1925). Despite the pain in his legs and feet, occasioned by the illness from which...
...Defense Chronic Fault...
...chronic fault in the opening tilts was the defense, which, except for one occasion in the first game when Vermont was held for four downs on the one yard line, was spotty to say the least. The pass defense, too, was ragged despite the fact that the majority of the opponents' completed tosses were flat ones for short gains only. The majority of the practice sessions this week will be devoted to defensive scrimmage's with the Freshmen furnishing the offensive opposition in most of them...
...stocky little tycoon who smiles and smiles (from habit rather than chronic mirth) is great Baron Melchett, No. 1 British industrialist, board chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Last week in Manhattan he smiled at the Bond Club, addressed to its spruce and serious members a sardonic prophecy. Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition...