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Called to order shortly after 9 p. m. by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Göring among whose countless titles is President of the Reichstag, Germany's 600 Deputies first waived all the Reichstag's rules of procedure and voted to place themselves "under the leadership principle." Thus they approved in advance whatever decrees from Realmleader Hitler might be read out to them by President Göring...
...Henry of Gloucester bought his fiancée, Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott a platinum engagement ring with a sapphire between two diamonds for $925 from Garrards in Albermarle Street, also a platinum wedding ring...
...Cleveland, Angela Demoa, 18, bought a wedding ring, a trousseau, filled her car with gasoline, hired two armed thugs. They forced her bashful fiancé, Frank Genovese, from a theatre at pistol point with the whispered admonition: "We've got the heat on you," drove him 113 miles to Ripley, N. Y., where Angela Demoa married...
...punch victory over Irus, and of Epeios' equally effective slugging of Euryalos, make subsequent reports on fisticuffing seem cloudy and selfconscious. When Euryalos was hit, he leaped up "as when beneath the North Wind's ripple a fish leapeth" and was forthwith dragged from the ring with his legs trailing, spitting clotted blood, his head drooping awry...
...familiar selection in the volume is Robert Davis' excellent story of the Fitzsimmons v. Corbett fight, beginning when Corbett, meeting Fitzsimmons doing roadwork, airily refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with...