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Emperor Hirohito showed no desire to go anywhere near the Weaving Works last week. Three score of the self starved strikers dropped from exhaustion, were carried to a hospital. Hunger striking was not in the contract of the chimney sitting printer. Sympathizers threw him rice balls, hard boiled eggs and apples. Then he was provided with a rope and a bucket, hauled up plentiful nutriment hand over hand...
...passed by White. McGrath followed with a single and went to second on Maxey's error as McCaffrey scored. After Ticknor struck out, Des Roches was walked and, when Ferrill muffed one of White's pitches, he advanced to third while McGrath crossed the plate. Demarest threw wild and Des Roches also came home, ending the scoring for the first inning...
...circle and pass the ball around (TIME, April 13). I have seen what were called "pepper games" in every class of baseball and the way these games were played was by one man getting a bat while one or more men with gloves stood some 20 feet away and threw the ball to the man with a bat, he tapped the ball to them. I once saw Walter Kimmick of the Bridgeport club of the Eastern League hit a ball in a "pepper game" 156 times before missing the ball...
...Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis and was threatening to go to work when fate overtook him in the manner which tradition prescribes for gigolos. The husband of a woman he had been comforting all winter came home one evening and threw him over the parapet of a penthouse. The scene in which he lies crushed to death on the pavement is the end of his life in Paramount pictures. From now on he will work for Warner and there are indications in Ladies' Man that the deal had already been...
...Spanish Fork, Utah, a car in which Robert Olsen Jr., 2, was riding overturned, threw him 20 ft. Robert Olsen landed in a mudbank, was unhurt...