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...first to leave the secret huddle of statesmen that has been discussing Germany's future in Rome for three weeks (TIME, April 17 et seq.) was the smallest and youngest Premier in Europe, five-foot, 40-year-old Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. He took back to Vienna with him the assurance that Italy would back his Government to the limit providing it gave up any idea of political union with Germany. Italy carefully pointed out that such a union would reduce Austria to the status of a German State like Bavaria...
...Haeseler '23, director of the Film Foundation, was faced yesterday afternoon with the problem of making a baby boa-constrictor constrict. An order from the Biology Department had come in for a film of a boa-constrictor eating his dinner; a sleck, five-foot specimen was accordingly secured, but it refused to perform even in the face of alternate starvation in solitude and mice before the camera...
...looked as though slim Tom Creavy, last year's winner, would play Olin Dutra for the title but Creavy, when he had squared his semi-final match with Frank Walsh of Chicago on the 36th, after being 9 down in the morning round, missed an important five-foot putt on the 38th. Dutra, who had coasted through the tournament, played Walsh in the finals. In California, where he and his brother learned to play on an improvised course between two trees in a meadow, Dutra is known for his steadiness, his diligence on practice tees. His short swing is especially...
...open pages the signature of the Creator, my Father." An Episcopalian, he last year accepted a trusteeship in William Jennings Bryan University at Dayton, Tenn., because like the Great Commoner he is "a thoroughgoing believer in the special creation of Man." He also advocates Prohibition. He once took a five-foot grey & yellow king snake before a Congressional Committee to startle them into approving the creation of Everglades National Park at the southwest tip of Florida. The king snake was his library pet. His current aversion is Birth Control, his pet foe Mrs. Margaret Sanger...
Most celebrated and most dangerous of all steeplechase races, the Grand National was run for the first time in 1839. Most famous of its 16 jumps is Becher's Brook, a five-foot hedge in front of a five-and-a-half-foot ditch. The average odds on Grand National winners have been 15 to 1; their average time...