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...brothers, who have meticulously adhered to their slogan, "Never a Dull Bout with a Dusek." Last week in Manhattan the four Duseks appeared on the same card, made themselves thoroughly unpopular by savagely thumping & kicking their way to victories in three out of four matches. Only 215-lb. Emil, lightest and mildest of the four, was unable...
...first Freshman eight is one of the lightest in several years. However the inexperienced men in it are beginning to develop rapidly and by the end of vacation the boat may make up in smoothness what it now lacks in weight...
...Chace in the stroke position, appeared capable. Coach Whiteside apparently felt satisfied with their showing as well as that of the rest of the boat, for he said he intended to leave the seatings alone until the end of next week. At 2, Art Beane, although the lightest man in the boat, handled a nice oar, as did Len Eliel at 3. To take care of Varsity candidates who did not get into the first four eights, another crew will be named today and perhaps a sixth tomorrow...
...whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik...
Autumn is the biggest hog-marketing season, with spring next. Summer slaughtering is normally light, and this year the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates that it will be the lightest in 30 years, perhaps no heavier than in 1902 when only 4,750,000 pigs went to market in the July-September period. Drought and the AAA's restriction program have reduced the number of hogs on corn-belt farms 37% in the past year...