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Skiing Draws Winter Visitors to Lake Placid A group who are enjoying tfte popular winter sport at Lake Placid, N. Y. Left to right: Misi Edith L. Januschek of Peiping, China; Miss Nancy Page Carveth of Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Dorothy Trumbridge of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jean Stanhope of, New York city; Victoria Nebeker of Los Angeles; Nancy Perkins of Baltimore; and Marie Carveth of Niagara Falls, N. Y. Big Demand for Windsor Souvenirs Professor Steinberger is seen at work in his London studio on statu ettes of the duke of Windsor, for which there is now a tremendous demand. Thousands of such statuettes had been made for Edward's coronation, and when he abdicated London business men groaned in anticipation of writing off terrific losses on stock that they could not sell. Instead of diminishing, the demand for the Edward figures has increased. HELPS UNEMPLOYED Baron Nuffield, who is Sir Wil liam Morris, head of a vast manu facturing organization including au tomobile plants, export companies, a publishing house and affiliated subsidiaries, donated $10,000,000 to stimulate employment in Great Britain's "depressed areas." EX-PRIVATE IS GENERAL Once a soldier, always a soldier, ia an old army belief, but one* a private, now a general, is a para phrase that fits Brigadier-General Kenyon Joyce, whose new rank was announced recently by President Roosevelt. General Joyce, once a ranker, now commands the "Presi dent's Own" third cavalry troop at Fort Myer, Va. During the World war he won the D. S. C., Order of the Purple Heart, Croix de Guerre and the French Legion of Honor. Bernie Bierman Made Coaches' Prexy Bernie Bierman, left, of Minnesota, new president of the National Football Coaches' association, is greeted, and welcomed to his post by Tuss McLaughrey, of Brown, the "passing" president. Bernie was elected at the annual convention of the coaches in New York city recently. Trick Accommodations on New Soviet Plane aw m Interesting photo, showing the arrangement of accommodation* in Bsrtha ara arranged below the wings aa ahown. In racant tests, M :luding pilot and co-pilot. the Soviet army two-seater were carried in this man Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1 ? Dr. Frederico Laredo Bru being sworn in as president of Cuba, following the ousting of President Miguel Gomez. 2 ? Leon Trotzky, former Soviet leader who has been given an exile haven in Mexico. 3 ? Chi nese National army that threatened civil war before the release of kidnaped Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. PRODIGY OF PIANO Ruth Slenczynski, eleven-year-old prodigy of the piano, who, when she made her debut in New York at the age of eight, could barely reach the pedals of the piano, is shown above as she stretches her fingers ? two notes over an octave. Wins Chicken-Eating Championship Using a two-handed, harmonica style technique with devastating ef fect, Mrs. Edna Mae Potter is pictured as she ate her way to win the Los Angeles county champion chicken eater trophy, feature of a poultry show. Consuming 45 pounds of a ^paster-dressing combination, she de feated four men for the prize. Madamoiselles Vie in Cross Country Race Shapes of all sizes, blondes and brunettes, tall and svelte, short and stumpy? the annual cross country race at St. Cloud, near Paris, France recently was open to all. Here you see the field charging over a stretch of rough terrain. Mile. Fanchon was the victor. Winners of Rhodes Scholarships Congratulations are in order and the four lucky ones felicitate each other as the camera clicks. They are four collegians selected for Rhodes scholarships from the middle Atlantic district. Standing are Harvey Well man (left), of Perry, N. Y., student at Cornell university, and Nelson Leonard, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., a student at Lehigh. Sitting? Robert Hart man, of Plain field, N. J., attending Tale, and James R. Gardner, of Baltknora, Hd, of Swarthmore. 75th Birthday of Finnish President Widely Celebrated President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud of Finland whose seventy-fifth birth day was celebrated throughout the country with great enthusiasm re cently. He wai hailed as the lather of his country and praised lor mak ing a protracted fight for the consti tutional rights of Finland against czarist Russian oppression. Twas This Way By LYLE SPENCER C Weitern Newspaper Union. Jazz Music ??'pHE music goes down around * whoa - ho - ho - ho That tune swept America from coast to coast recently until its very sound made radio listeners grind their teeth. It also marked the return to popularity of "swing" music. "Swing" or real jazz reached its first peak during the 1920's along with short skirts and flappers. Whether it originated among the natives along the gold coast of Af rica, or in colored orchestras along the gold coast of our large; cities, is still a matter of dispute. At any rate, the first Dlack hero of jazz was Louis Armstrong, who created a sensation in Chicago with his wild trumpet solos of such pieces as "Struttin' with Some Barbecue." "Gully Low Blues," and "A Monday Date." His early records are still as highly prized by jazz lovers as a Beethoven symphony. After Armstrong came many other famous swing bands like Jean Goldkette's and Fn nk Trum bauer's. But the popularity of jazz began to crumble about 1929 with the stock market. Maybe it is as sociate.! with business prosperity. The beginning of its comeback dates from the winter of 1935, when "The Music Goes Roun^and Round" ran riot through the nation. In spite of the fact that jazz has become an American byword, no one seems to know exactly what the word means. Greater Than Napoleon XJAPOLEON BONAPARTE was ^ ' probably responsible for the de struction of more human lives than any other man. During the Napole onic wars and thos^ that followed it, five or six million people were killed. Napoleon is well known to every school boy. Yet a man ./ho saved many more lives than Napoleon lost is known only to the small group of people who have read the history of medicine. That man is Edward Jenner, the discoverer of smallpox vaccination. As a young country doctor, Jenner noticed that dairymaids who con tracted cowpox from the cows they milked seldom fell ill with small pox. Cowpox produces sores on the skin much like those of smallpox, except that the disease is very mild. From this, Jenner got the idea of vaccinating people with cowpox serum to prevent them from having smallpox. He -tried it out on his country practice, and found that none of his patients contracted smallpox after wards, even when they were in oculated with smallpox germSiJVhen he finally announced his great dis covery to the world in 1798, a few people received it with great ac claim. But many more opposed it violently, saying that smallpox was a visitation from God as a retri bution for the sins of man. Napoleon used the vaccine on his soldiers, as did a few other far seeing people, but it has taken well over a hundred years for the prin ciple of vaccination to become gen erally accepted. The Social Register THE most exclusive group in New York's high society suppos edly contains only 400 members. That is a tradition which has come down to us from the days when Mrs. William Astor was the reigning so ciety matron of the city. She lim ited her inner circle to 400 because that was all her ballroom would comfortably hold! The golden age of conspicuous display in American society was during the gay nineties. Those were the days when hostesses tried to outdo each other in the lavishness of the parties they gave. Stories are still told of how guests some times smoked cigarettes rolled in $100 bills and ate oyster? on the hali-shell, each containing a mag nificent black pearl. At one fancy-dress ball, Mr. Bel mont is said to have worn a suit of gold-inlaid armor made specially for the occasion that cost $10,000. A daughter of one Croesus was sup posed to own a dressing table worth $65,000 and a pair of bejewelled opera glasses valued at $75,000. The nouveau-riche of America tried to ape all the mannerisms of foreign millionaires, even to such things as fox-hunting. The golden age was extravagant and wasteful, but it was one of the most colorful in our nation's history. The Ball Frog A large, warty body with a broad head, large prominent eyes and ears, and long, fully-webbed toes are some of the characteristics by which the bullfrog may be distin guished. In color it is greenish brown above, sometimes marbled with black, and yellowish white be neath, usually marbled with brown. This is a decidedly aquatic species, being found during the summer in large ponds or lakes with muddy bottoms. It is the loudest of all of our frogs in vocal achievements, its croaking having sometimes been likened to the bellowing of a bull, according to Helen Loom is in the Detroit New*.
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