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...with an obscure challenger named Judson. Before the fun started, a wild-eyed French-Canadian, named Yvon Robert, who had persistently but unsuccessfully sought a match with O'Mahoney, was called into the ring, introduced to the customers. Suddenly Yvon Robert stripped off overcoat, sweater, trousers, tried to pin O'Mahoney then & there. Dragged away, Wrestler Robert sat at the ringside, heckled the champion who was downing Judson with ease. O'Mahoney, stung by the verbal pricks of this upstart, demanded an immediate settlement. Spang into the ring flounced Challenger Robert, collared O'Mahoney, held...
...Manhattan and glory. At her publishers' tea there Author Margaret Flint, swelling with pleased pride and a corsage of tea-roses, looked more than ever like Mrs. Jacobs of Bay St. Louis. One of her sponsors, in helpful vein, asked if she felt like a butterfly on a pin. "Rather a weighty butterfly," smiled 200-lb. Margaret Flint Jacobs. With five of her six children at home and a husband whose toll-bridge had been rendered bankrupt by Huey Long's free bridges, Author Flint let it be known she was in Manhattan for business, not pleasure. "What...
...shipments of oil to Italy (TIME, Dec. 2). This angered Italy, embarrassed the State Department, left the Administration out on a limb when the League of Nations postponed Oil Sanctions. Last week Secretary Ickes called in newshawks, pulled out the stenographic report of his previous press conference, tried to pin the blame for headline troubles on the reporters. He was, he said, opposed to shipments of '"munitions," not "materials" of war to Italy. Blissfully unaware that in the language of statecraft "munitions of war" is the phrase used to denote oil and other war materials as distinct from cannon...
Probably the first people in Heaven who recognized the stocky man in the morning coat and pin-striped trousers were some onetime residents of Kansas City who were singing Brighten the Corner Where You Are. They had expected that sooner or later Billy Sunday would walk briskly in. Nor were they surprised when Billy Sunday strode up to Jesus Christ, shook Him by the hand and said: "Jesus, thank you. I'm glad you honored me with salvation. I'm glad you honored me with the privilege of preaching your gospel. . . . Now, Jesus, I'd like...
...fulfill Reader Rothschild's request, TIME let a member of the staff, blindfolded, stick a pin in a U. S. map. The pin pierced the name of Paducah. Ky. TIME then asked Paducah's most eminent citizen, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, to nominate a beneficiary in his town. Result: To Paducah's Riverside Hospital, one year's subscription to TIME. To Reader Rothschild, hearty thanks...