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...feet, four inches to take first place in this event. With a large handicap of 10 feet, six inches, Edward L. Young, III '37 took second place, and John H. Dean '34, starting from scratch, was third. The second weight event was won by M. M. Reznick 1G.B., who threw the 35-pound shot 51 feet, 10 1-4 inches from scratch. Norman L. Cahners '36, and Paul L. Van Cleve '37 took second and third place respectively, both having handicaps...
...shouldn't continue for the next three years." A newshawk: "Three years, did you say, Mr. President?" For an instant the President's famed aplomb was shaken as he groped for an answer. Then he made his usual effective reply: threw back his head and roared with laughter...
...optimist, Klim has expressed conviction that the world's next important war, no matter how it starts, will end up as a concerted assault by the Capitalist Powers on the Soviet Union. For this reason he threw his whole influence behind a successful move to draft the Five-Year Plan in such fashion that Russia would achieve self-sufficiency first in the realm of munitions and armaments. As Captain Liddell Hart points out, Soviet battle planes-on which Klim pins so much hope -are of 100% Soviet manufacture and the whole effort of the Red War Office...
...cake myself for $15.'' The crowd booed and heckled when she called for bids, forcing her to knock down the cake for $20. Even hotter than she was two months ago while dressing down a ladies' lecture club in Philadelphia (TIME, Dec. 11), Actress Le Gallienne threw down the gavel, stormed into the micro phone: "I came to Minneapolis proud of my Viking ancestry. I'm still proud of it. You can't be Vikings. . . . You are lousy Americans! Unpatriotic dullards!" The crowd howled and jeered as angry Actress Le Gallienne swept from the platform...
...kindly Cossack fitted her into a uniform, had her hair cut and soon she was doing a soldier's share. Twice recommended for the Cross of St. George, she was wounded, captured by Kurds, shellshocked. When the Revolution broke the Bolsheviks caught her in a hospital at Kazan, threw her into prison. Rescued by Czechoslovaks who had joined the Whites, she shared the retreat of the Czechs across Siberia, escaped from Vladivostok to Japan...