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There was a mighty splash as 173 swimmers, most of them naked, all of them thick with grease, plunged into Lake Ontario, in a 21-mi. race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water...
...moon in the sky the German baker, Ernst Vierkoetter, kneaded his way, machinelike, down the last mile. He stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled out. He had won $7,500. Three hours...
...Professor William F. Bade of an expedition sent by the Pacific School of Religion to unearth Biblical Mizpah, pressed his work and returned home last fortnight. Mizpah was used by the Israelites as a fortress and capital during the Babylonian invasion. Its walls were 16 feet to 25 feet thick. Stratified ruins revealed civilizations stretching back from 500 to 3000 B. C. In a 7th Century B. C. cellar were found wine jars and a statue of the Egyptian...
Black secrecy had reigned for ten days within the thick, awesome walls of the Kremlin. There the Central Executive Committee of the Communist party was in the progress of expelling Comrade Lev Davidovitch Trotzky from its ranks -this in a country where the Communist Party is the only one per mitted to exist. Comrade Trotzky, creator of the Red Army and one-time chief defender of the Communist Fatherland, was assumedly being read out of the party councils-and with him Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, zealous apostle of "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." The struggle between these two fiery...
Europa and the Bremen, low-winged monoplanes that looked like thick prehistoric lizards received their final tuning up. They received mail for the U. S., $18,000 worth of which (value of the stamps) had been sent to the Dessau post office, much of it from stamp collectors addressing U. S. friends asking that the cancelled stamps be returned. Next the pilots loaded in rations prepared by their good fraus: sausage, chocolate, zwieback, hard-boiled eggs, bananas, lemons, orange juice, tea. A bottle of fine brandy was rejected as too heavy. Officials clapped them on the backs; fraus kissed them...