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...boats, works on them with a staff of six mechanics with whom he shared quarters in Detroit last week. At 14. Hubert Scott-Paine ran away to sea. Before the War, : his early twenties, he became interested in airplanes, flew so recklessly that IK was jailed for "suicidal intent." Stranded in the South of France, he joined a circus, got 20 francs a bout for boxing with anyone who wanted to earn ?3 by staying three rounds. An Englishman who did it made friends with Scott-Paine, took him back to England, started him in airplane building...
Actually Cinemactor Chaplin is a subject of British George V. Throughout the trial last week all the accused petty officers showed themselves ignorant of world affairs, fanatically intent on just one thing: the resurgence of Japan which they described as "Great Asianism. . . . Everywhere the Asiatic races are oppressed by the whites. ... It is Japan's mission to form a great Asiatic confederation and liberate Asia...
...hypnotism: French Catholics called Mohammed an impostor and vilified his faith. Two of the biggest newspapers are owned by Christians, nevertheless dared not let themselves be completely outdone in anti-Christian fury. While the Press squirmed, a committee petitioned fat King Fuad to "save Moslems from the evil intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue tax exemption to missionary institutions, withdraw subsidies for mission schools. One hundred and fifty thousand pounds would be saved annually for State schools and welfare work. The petition was concurred in by the present rector of Al Azhar University Sheikh Ahmedi...
...eleven victories over competent fighters in the last two years and the fact that Promoter Jack Dempsey thought Baer's Jewish ancestry (on his father's side) might make him popular in New York, qualified him last week as an opponent for Max Schmeling of Germany-intent on earning another chance at the world's heavyweight championship which Jack Sharkey took away from him a year...
...weekly Sandspur, "dismayed beyond words," and President Nathan S. French of the student body both resigned from college. Many another student had already planned not to return next year because of a new "unit-cost" plan which will raise tuition fees to about $1,340.* Hamilton Holt seemed doggedly intent on having his own way even if it meant decimating his faculty and losing leading students. With him he had a complaisant board of trustees, save for Mrs. Raymond Robins, Florida bookshop proprietor and wife of Herbert Hoover's reformer friend who disappeared with amnesia for some weeks last...