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Duplicating the feat of the Varsity Middie boat, the Navy Jayvee shell jumped into the lead on the Severn within the first 20 strokes, and built up an advantage that Harvard and Pennsylvania's second crews could not overcome...
...last legs as a Laborite party organ because the millionaire publishers Beaverbrook & Rothermere knew better than the Herald's editors what the British workingman wanted to read. Elias fixed that, had its sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with the Socialist weekly Clarion. In two months he drove its circulation from 40,000 to nearly 250,000. So long as they show a profit, he is willing to let his publications hang on to their traditional politics, like the old-style Liberalism of John Bull, the Conservativism of The People...
...Neilson's programs had apparently achieved the astonishing feat of pleasing both mothers and children. Chief characters are a tribe of invisible creatures, "very, very thin and streamlined," who are known as Orgets and come from The-Land-We-Know-Not-Of. Mrs. Neilson was a small girl in Philadelphia when she invented the original Orgets as companions. In those days Orgets lived in baubles on Christmas trees. Resurrected for Radio, they now flit about in airplanes too thin to be seen, slide under doors, squeeze into books. In each program they do a good deed. Sample...
...sheer distortion of plain words out of their plain meaning this could scarcely be surpassed, and no such feat was attempted in Warsaw by Colonel Slawek. What he has done is to make a tolerably neat system out of the loose ends of Marshal Pilsudski's erratic and unsystematic but popular and effective Military Dictatorship...
...Pilot Carmichael will probably go the Air Mail Fliers' Medal, first awarded to Northwest Airlines' Mai Freeburg in 1932 for a similar feat...