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Unabashed, a newshawk chirped, "Is your hat in the ring...
...with a brass band serenade, for it was his wedding morn. As every German knows, Nazi No. 1 eschews pomp, never wears anything more pretentious than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home...
...daughter is usually called "Miss Mary." She rises at 5, spends the morning at the track, goes to the races in the afternoon, to bed at 9. She owns three dogs: cocker spaniel, pointer and Dalmatian. She wants to stud)' aviation, has never ridden in the show-ring or to hounds. This summer she expects officially to train her own horses, Captain Argo and Terrific. Last week in Columbia. S. C. she said modestly: "I have a few horses which can run fast. If they escape illness and injury, I think they will win in New York this spring...
...story is that the Babylonians had hemmed in the beleaguered city with a ring of uprooted olive trees, set them afire. Leader Starkey found a circle of charred stones and wood ash extending clear around the city. In the ashes were innumerable olive pits...
...hobo trip in 1930 he met "Matt Williams," based his novel on Williams' story. Author Whitcomb has had little to invent: as a hobo and interviewer in agencies for the homeless he has talked to 10,000 unemployed. His literary gods are a queer trinity; Thoreau, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence. At present Author Whitcomb is in St. Paul getting material for his next book...