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...away India obstreperous Gand-hites wear white, homespun "Gandhi Caps," which British policemen fish off their heads. The fishing is done with poles having a sharp hook at the end, and while they fish the police beat the nonresisting Gandhites with staves (TIME, July 7). It was in protest against such "inhumanity" that ascetic Laborite Archibald Fenner Brockway, M. P., 42, a leading publicist and orator of his party, was startling the House with his "Gandhi Cap." He demanded that without further ado his chief, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald permit debate on India, then and there...
...opponents and for his ability to cling to the arms, ribs and elbows of those whom he respects, amazed a crowd of 20,000 by poking several long lefts into the sallow face of Otto Von Porat, lanky Norwegian. Before the first round ended Stribling suddenly lashed a left hook against Von Porat's jaw. The Norwegian fell flat on his back, was counted...
...sought to repel these two types of attack but were greatly outnumbered. Though obviously favored by perfect weather and the arbitrary plan of the "battle," the Navy's overhead forces had easily "stolen the show." As a final touch, a plane from the Saratoga equipped with a special hook flew up to the silvery dirigible Los Angeles which had been idling aloft all day, and attached itself, exchanged messages, detached, glided back to the Saratoga-first time such a feat had been attempted over the ocean...
Penetrating descriptive force is Author Hazard's on occasion. "He had one of those retreating chins which is nevertheless determined; his teeth turned in, the kind of mouth people have who are afraid to step out and fight in the open but who secretly by hook or by crook are determined to have their own way." Nor is the book without humor, illustrated by the story of an old pastry-lover who interpreted literally and insistently the statement on restaurant menus: "All kinds of pie, 10?...
Alternate medals in this competition have been awarded to Philip Henry Cohen '32, of Sandy Hook, New Jersey; Charles Francis Elliott '31, of Holly Springs, Georgia; Wilbur Ellis Esber '31, of Canton, Ohio; Frederick Charles Fiechter Jr. '32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; John Francis Harding '30, of Pittsfield; David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey; Armistead Buckner Rood '31, of Concord; and Francis Beattie Thurber '30, of New York. These medals were also given to the manager, James Stanley Jennison '30, of Cambridge, and to his assistant Justin Robert Wolf '32, of Omaha, Nebraska...