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...torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face. One eye was shut, the other expressionless. . . . The agony lasted 45 minutes." Bomber Frolenko spent 24 years at hard labor and in exile before he escaped in the uprisings of 1905. At 84 he is robust and hearty, talks incessantly of his exploit. "I was one of the principal organizers of the whole undertaking [against Alexander II]" boasted Assassin Frolenko last week. "For two years we hunted that scoundrel Tsar and at last we got him!" "Do you still approve your deed? Do you still approve...
Whether enough food got into Russian stomachs was an academic question to Walter Duranty and other Moscow correspondents until last week. Suddenly Dictator Josef Stalin returned, robust and vigorous, from a two-month holiday in his native Caucasus. Two days later the "Man of Steel" announced, for the first time, short food rations for not only all foreign correspondents but even for previously pampered foreign engineers...
Alumni opinion is of course divided, but the defense of the good old days appears less robust than might have been expected. There is a strong current of student protest. Three members of this year's varsity, headed by the renowned "Albie" Booth, have joined with Coach Stevens in deploring the exposure of first-team men to the grave risk of lost games. They assert that Yale teams "have been winning teams for sixty years," and they bespeak tender solicitude for a "splendid record" and a "noble heritage." The Yale Daily News fears "the complete obliteration of Yale's athletic...
Time & again Peru's Congress has hinted to the President that, since he was not killed, he ought to commute the death sentence. But President Sanchez Cerro is as mentally relentless as he is physically robust and tough. Congress, knowing this, has tried to wheedle him by the flattery of promoting him in military rank. President Sanchez Cerro was unmoved. Lounging at home in a $150 silk bathrobe he let Jose Melgar sit in jail...
...Englishman of robust John Bull type greeted fragile Ambassador Andrew William Mellon and other U. S. pilgrims to the opening of the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon last week, booming with a throb in his deep bull voice, "From my heart welcome, welcome home...