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...wired Caniff for a picture, got it, won. By this time Yale was beginning to feel that it was being jinxed, and so last fall Yale's junior prom committee wrote to Cartoonist Caniff and demanded a picture for Eli. Caniff knocked off a quick sketch of The Dragon Lady, which the committee blew up to enormous proportions and used as a wall decoration at the prom...
Last week, thirteen days before the Yale-Harvard race, Cartoonist Caniff received a wire. Even though The Dragon Lady had been to Yale, could Harvard have her picture for the boathouse? Cartoonist Caniff-who went to Ohio State-rushed it off (see cut). Yale had not been heard from at week...
...foot Sea Dragon put out from Hong Kong last February, Captain John Wenlock Welch commanding. She has not been seen since. Public interest in Richard Halliburton's fate was modified by the suspicion that his disappearance might be a pressagent stunt. But last week, in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, was published the record of what appeared to be the only unpremeditated adventure of Adventurer Halliburton's career...
...hallowed objects were smuggled out of its ancient Forbidden City. About as easy to smuggle as a couple of dentists' chairs, they were an eight-foot, ten-inch white jade Buddhist pagoda (largest jade piece in the world), and a gold, lacquer and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had sat from the 17th Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands...
Last fortnight the pagoda got to Mrs. Roosevelt safe & sound, but the Dragon Throne failed to show up. She pottered around a customs warehouse looking for it, finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last...