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Last spring crowds in a Munich railroad station threw flowers at a group of German climbers leaving to attempt the Mountain of Horror. The party was led by Willi Merkl, who had failed to reach the top two years before when his porters, mountain-sick and frightened, balked. This year pains were taken to find the hardiest and pluckiest hillmen obtainable. Last week came news of disaster...
...character-builder, passed up & down the hall to confer his blessing. With that His Holiness thought the audience was over. Not so Midshipman Henry L. ("Hank") Muller of Leonia, N. J., fresh-faced, handsome son of a devout Catholic mother. Leaping up before the throne, he threw up his hands, cried: "All right, boys, let's have four N's, one Nay-vee and three Holy Fathers. Make it hot!" As the Pope blinked and "Hank"' Muller's arms flailed the air, there arose 1 mighty, measured yell...
...acting only as godfather, Sir John Simon crisply made clear when he rose to give the Eastern Locarno its first public airing last week in the House of Commons. "We are not undertaking any new obligation," he insisted. "We under take no obligation at all!" But Sir John then threw the full moral weight of His Majesty's Government behind the following peace program...
Since the Reichstag Building mysteriously went up in flames soon after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Berlin's vast Kroll Opera House was pressed into service last week by Speaker Göring. In a quarter-mile-wide cordon around it he threw his police and black-jacketed S. S. Storm Troops. Sweating carpenters rushed up a huge banner over the impromptu Reichstag portals: WE FIGHT AND PRAY FOR ADOLF HITLER...
Mussolini strode up to the wheat with leg-stretching strides, threw off his coat and hat, seized a pitchfork and began heaving wheat into the maw of the thresher. There was no need for the photographers to hurry. Sweating mightily, Thresher Mussolini pitched wheat into the machine for one full hour while the peasants of Sabaudia, hoarse from their usual heavy doses of quinine, sang folk songs to him. An official called time and then handed him a pay ticket for 2 lire, 10 centesimi (18?), the usual wage for an Italian farm laborer's hour of work. Puffing...