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...crack Italian liner Conte di Savoia neared Naples, bearing roly-poly Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff from his triumph in Washington, the Italian Press burst with significant unanimity into a "tune" evidently called by Benito Mussolini. From the toe of the Italian boot to its strap among the Alps, Italians read that "Japanese dumping has become a new Oriental peril...
...settled down to the business of driving through four touchdowns. The first went to a hard-hitting tackle named Charles Ceppi who blocked a Yale kick on the 35-yd. line, scooped up the ball and raced across the line. The second started with a march from midfield by crack Halfback '"Garry" Le Van and Fullback "Pepper" Constable, and ended with a lateral pass to Halfback Spoffard from the 6-yd. line. Five plays carried the ball 54 yd. for Le Van to score the third. A whippet-tank march from the 35-yd. line made the fourth...
...Rome. Of all places Commissar Litvinoff chose the city of Pope Pius XI and of Benito Mussolini as his next destination. Just before sailing from Manhattan on the crack Italian liner Conte de Savoía he lost his hat twice in a wild mêlée of Communist sympathizers and autograph hunters, retrieved it a second time with the merry cry, ''Ah-at last I have caught your American tempo...
Teams. The New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs whom they nosed out for last season's Stanley Cup (league championship) are again the favorites this year. Besides retaining their crack regulars-Ching Johnson, Frank Boucher, Bill & Bun Cook, who have been with the team since 1926-the Rangers have acquired two notable recruits. One is a defense man named Jean Pusie who played with Vancouver and was last year's high scorer in the Western Canada League. Pusie is 23, has a cauliflower ear from professional wrestling, never plays without his "lucky cap." The other recruit...
...solid perch from early 1931 until last month when little Oregon State jostled it with a scoreless tie. Michigan came perilously close to slipping from the top of the Big Ten, where it has been for three years. That it did not slip was largely due to a crack halfback named Herman Everhardus and to Willis Ward, a rangy Negro end. It was Ward who, after hard-fighting Illinois had marched to a touchdown in the first period, shot through and blocked the place kick which would have given Illinois a seventh point. In the next period Everhardus raced around...