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...experiment the manager of Moscow's "Proletarian Victory Shoe Factory" gave a friend a pair of shoes. In six days the soles had worn through. Within 19 days the friend had worn out three pairs of "Victory Shoes." End experiment...
...sketched the golden eagle in the New York Zoological Garden, the valley quail in the Pittsburgh Zoo. When he painted the final pictures, he verified his colors from the bird skin collection of Dr. Jonathan Dwight in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The episode of the pair of golden eagles chasing the redhead ducks (see cut} was reported to him by others. But he has seen a pair of bald eagles so chasing ducks in Connecticut. Too slow for the ducks, one eagle dives at them, drives them down to the water, then the other dives, then...
...material for sideline talk last week. Ellsworth Vines Jr., defending his championship, and Henri Cochet, keyed to avenge the beating Vines gave him at Roland Garros stadium, had first-round byes. . . . Bunny Austin, England's No. i player, wearing a floppy white duck hat and a flaring pair of white flannel shorts, won his first match easily. Edward Burns Jr. of Brooklyn won the longest championship set of the day-20-18- against E. D. Yeomans of last year's crack North Carolina team. . . . Richard Norris Williams II, national champion in 1914 and 1916, whose tennis is still...
...down upon those who hold their snakes by the neck.) Behind the "carrier" is a second Hopi, called a "hugger," his arms about the shoulders of the carrier, one hand holding a feather wand which he brushes across the snake's face to occupy its attention. Behind this pair is a third Hopi, the "gatherer." If a snake wriggles free he must catch it before it escapes-or bites a spectator-and return it to the carrier...
...tariff law enacted last March had imposed duties against foreign goods with the provision that these duties could be applied to the Dominions after next November. Mr. Bennett wanted a market for Canadian wheat, dairy products, poultry, lumber. Mr. Bruce wanted a market for Australian frozen meat. For this pair poky Mr. Baldwin was no match. Before they were through with him Britain had committed herself to five years of free entry for Dominion foodstuffs (except the Irish Free State's) at the expense of tariffs against the rest of the world's foodstuffs...