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...When the policeman told me Petlura was dead I could not hide my Joy. I leaped forward and threw my arms about his neck...
...isolated the monarch from his people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal couple from his clutches and threw his body into the Neva from a bridge in Petrograd. Most of this was known before (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926), but it is the first time that Prince Yussupov has told it in his own words...
...expected petition, whipped out a revolver and fired through the windshield at the aged president. Smiles on the faces of policemen faded instantly. Before the assailant could pull the trigger twice a dozen strong arms of the law had siezed him. Soldiers, alarmed by the shot, became rigid, threw a cordon around the would-be assassin to prevent his being torn asunder by the infuriated...
...quarterback of 1926, and Eddie Dooley, 1926 quarterback-poet from Dartmouth, played against each other for the first time last week. Meeting in a Manhattan hotel, they fell to discussing the forward pass, gesticulated, went to the Polo Grounds to suit action to words. In friendly contest, Friedman, running, threw the ball more accurately at a given target. Dooley, long of arm and flat of hand, seized the ball and threw it from midfield over the cross bar of the goal posts. Friedman tried, fell short...
...fielder might have reached but which Pittsburgh Outfielder Barnhart could not touch. In the eighth inning New York made six more runs, including a home-run by Batter Ruth with two men on base. With good fielding, however, Batter Ruth never would have come to the plate. Pitcher Meadows threw to first when he should have thrown to second, Second Baseman Rhyne threw to first when he should have thrown to second, and Rhyne also made a throw to the plate which failed to put out a runner coming in from third base. After these various misadventures, the Pittsburgh pitcher...