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...economists willing to work in Addis Ababa for a pittance more than they could make at home. From the list Mr. Colson was picked by the Emperor, hired at $9,000 per year, and went to live with his wife in a sizzling, tin-roofed bungalow. It was this pair, Fat Chaps & Lean Chaps, who persuaded and advised Emperor Power of Trinity last week to make a move which His Majesty sincerely hoped would bring Great Britain to Ethiopia's side this week in bluffing down Fascist Italy at Geneva...
...year, like many another U. S. newspaper, the New York Times carried an astonishing picture, captioned it: MAN FLIES ON HIS OWN POWER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY (TIME, April 23, 1934). The picture showed a man on skis propelling himself off the ground by puffing into a pair of rotors. It was a fine picture, a fine story and, unfortunately, a fine hoax, concocted as an April Fool joke by the editors of Germany's Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung...
...hours the lost pair stumbled over the barren Valley floor, their feet blistered, their lips cracked, their tongues swollen. Often crossing their own footprints, they realized they were circling hopelessly. At last, completely exhausted, they lay down beside a dry mudhole to await their fate. There last week a searching airplane pilot finally spied little Agnes feebly waving a blanket...
...last two years, in the second round. William J. Clothier, U. S. singles champion in 1906, and William J. Clothier Jr., a Harvard sophomore, were the new titleholders. Those veterans among veterans, Frederick C. ("Pop") Baggs and Dr. William Rosenbaum, were finally ousted as champions by a pair of oldsters from Boston named Raymond B. Bidwell and Richard Bishop. Mixed doubles winners, after a polyglot final against Kay Stammers of England and Roderick Menzel of Czechoslovakia, were Sarah Palfrey Fabyan of Boston and Enrique Maier of Spain. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan and Helen Jacobs won the women's doubles...
...Oakland, Calif. in 1915, son of a laundry wagon driver, Donald Budge began to play tennis at 8, taught by his elder brother Lloyd who sawed off a racket for him to play with, on the dirt courts of a public park. His first tennis costume was a pair of blue overalls and a khaki cowboy hat. Lloyd Budge, who became good enough to be tennis coach at St. Mary's College, beat Brother Donald regularly until 1933. That year the younger Budge, not yet 18, won the California Championship for men. A diffident, stringy, surprisingly agile youth...