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...played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the onetime Kaiser fells a modest cord or two each year in Doorn, Mr. Bigelow is indefatigable as a log and kindling splitter at his 120-year-old rustic abode, "Bigelow Homestead," in Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y. (TIME, Feb. 22). Time was when his father, John Bigelow, was U. S. Ambassador at Paris; and young Poultney is said to have paddled the first U. S. canoe that ever skimmed through...
...actual work. Compare it with other sports, and the physical effort is surprising. Contrast a round of golf in foot-pounds of work, or a set of tennis in the lung power required with climbing a mountain under a forty-pound pack; compare chopping one big cross-log with the strokes of nine holes: and you will see why a seasoned tramper and axeman will "kill" a college athlete at this game...
Although the 69th Congress does not reconvene for its last and short winter session until Dec. 6, yet Washington is already liberally sprinkled with ambitious lawmakers, framing and log-rolling new bills...
...attractively illustrated edition of the log of the intrepid Italian traveller with an introduction by John Masefield, together with his no less famous compatriot's account of his own amours and escapades. Handsomely boxed and jacketted, $6.00. Each one sold separately...
...Sultan of Morocco, tc the daughter of El Glaowi, pasha of Marrakech; at Marrakech, Morocco. El Glaowi thus achieves his life ambition, to ally his family with that of Mohammed. Thousands of sheiks, nobly mounted, resplendent in white silk robes, multi-colored burnouses, attended. Beeves, steers, sheep revolved over log fires, fed 8,000 guests. Fountains radiated jeweled light, the populace danced in the streets, fireworks soared. Two other sons and a daughter of the Sultan having been wed at the same time, the potentate offered a new costume to any of his slaves who desired to marry immediately. Thirty...