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Rogers, whose feat was performed last work, but whose modestly has kept reports of his prowess from the headlines, said that he alternated four vanillas and 19 chocolates with one sundae to achieve the record, five above the previous mark of 19, last held by Peabody. Rogers declared that he won "a couple of dollars, but I haven't collected...
...involving NRA, AAA and the Bankhead Act (where a combination of overwork and hostility from the bench brought him to a courtroom collapse). After the AAA case his dark, lively wife, Winifred, long active in politics as registrar general of the D. A. R., performed the most audacious political feat of Washington's 1936 social season by inviting all the Supreme Court Justices to dinner...
...unit plan," everything fitting into a horizontal scheme of 20-ft. squares, a vertical scheme of 3½- in. brick units. The Johnson Building is the first sizable structure Wright has had a chance to build since the Imperial Hotel, and it ranks with that masterpiece as an engineering feat. Wright's plans for it set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. The columns by which the architect proposed to support his building were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a base...
...larger group than ever started off this year. For fresh in the minds of many was the fabulous feat of Ralph Guldahl, who, debt-laden and jobless, started out on the grapefruit circuit last winter with borrowed clubs and a wheezing jalopy, won $3,500, went on to win the U. S. Open championship last summer and wound up the year with $8,600 in prize money, a lucrative winter job at the Miami-Biltmore and a potential 1938 income of some $25,000 from endorsing golf equipment, exhibition matches, magazine articles and other pickings & perquisites that fall...
...Laputa. At one time this nomad-land was located in Hunan Province in the interior, then in Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang Kai-shek's army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, Soviet China disappeared, only to pop up a year later in the northwest. A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia-except that the Mexicans would have far better roads for their anabasis...