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...fame or to refute a new assortment of rumors that he had robbed a Cairo post office and murdered an Arab who saw through his disguise. Instead he headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland, one of his officers was killed, two were badly wounded and Burton got a spear through his cheek...
...thoroughly dramatized and "hoked up" to get the last tingling thrill from the most distant customer, that the skeptical are likely to be unaware of the act's real dangers. The lunges, feints and sham attacks of his beasts help make it a magnificent feat of showmanship, but they are not what Beatty worries about. Lions hate tigers and tigers hate lions, and in this atmosphere of hate the unexpected is always on the verge of happening. Beatty started mixing lions and tigers of both sexes in 1926 after a wise old "cat man" told...
...award for an "outstanding contribution to the industry." Awarded only when the Special Award Committee feels that there has been a contribution outstanding enough to deserve it, the prize has been presented only five times in the past. It went to Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark Griffith (1936) as a belated tribute for outstanding contributions...
...Taylor has been more circumspect in public statements about Organized Labor than some of his hard-boiled fellow steelmasters. They would probably not receive the shrewd compliment paid last week by Mr. Lewis to Mr. Taylor's "industrial statesman-ship." Rumors flew that Mr. Taylor's feat of industrial statesmanship might be crowned with White House recognition in the field of international statesmanship. Promptly denied, the amazing story was that Myron Charles Taylor was now in line for a New Deal Ambassadorship, perhaps to the Court of St. James...
Starting in the unlimited class will be Bill Glendinning, who has been undefeated in dual competition since he has been in college. Biggest feat so far for this crack wrestler occured curlier in the season when he came up against Charlie Tell, Princeton's massive all-American football player. Though he had a weight advantage of some 45 pounds, a height advantage of five inches, the huge Tiger is more brute strength than skill and agility, and the 1000 people who came to see the meet watched the Crimson lad win an exciting match in overtime, a match in which...