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...foot with his two companions. They had not walked far when they stumbled upon something which looked like a graveyard. Digging away the snow and ice which neatly covered the mounds, they found skeletons of men. Tucked away in a cairn of rocks was a faded blue jacket, part of a tent. They had discovered the last camping ground of the Franklin Expedition, which set out from England 85 years ago to find a northwest passage to the Pacific...
...Schmeling, world's champion heavyweight fighter, driving a fast motorboat alone on Scharmützelsee (large lake 18½ mi. from Berlin) dove off just before the boat sank, shed his overcoat, leather jacket and boots while swimming, was rescued, exhausted, after...
...satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that lie would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood. Friends repeated the threat to the artist. When the Duke arrived unexpectedly at Goya's studio the next day he found his wife lightly but sufficiently clad in flimsy trousers, toreador's jacket, posing for another picture which sly Goya had stayed up all night to paint. Both pictures now hang side by side in the Seville gallery...
...evening last week President Hoover's private telephone bell rang in the White House. It was his political secretary, Walter Hughes Newton, calling from the Capitol. Mr. Newton said that the second session of the 71st Congress would adjourn in one hour or less. The President, in dinner jacket, summoned Secretary of War Hurley and together they motored to the Capitol. Such trips to "the Hill" are pure courtesy on the President's part. There is no constitutional reason for him to sign bills before adjournment...
...Indian cemetery of Yellow Jacket, Utah, Lloyd Cantsee and Truman Hatch, Piutes, dug up a superstition supposed to be dead and a squaw's body really dead. Of dead fingernails and toenails they made a powder to put in the drinking water of their enemies. Of the superstition that this potion would cause its quaffer a loathsome disease (diabetes mixed with scurvy) they had high hopes. Caught at their hex, they were brought last week by tribefellows before a court at Price, Utah. Their defense: "We were only having fun." Their sentence: one to five years in gaol...