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Named Athlete-of-the-Year by 52 votes of U. S. sportswriters in an Associated Press poll was Golfer Gene Sarazen, U. S. and British Open champion. Second with 36 votes was Tennist Ellsworth Vines; third with 33, Sprinter Eddie Tolan.

Discovered and overpowered in a turret of the Doom castle of Wilhelm Hohenzollern was a German armed with parabellum (50-shot automatic gun) and 12-in. dagger. To police he explained that he bore a message from Adolf Hitler, that he planned to fire the gun in the air to attract the ex-Kaiser's attention, to use the dagger on watchdogs. Hustled back to Germany, he was identified as one Heinrich Fuecker, onetime inmate of both prison and asylum. Wilhelm Hohenzollern shrugged off the incident: "It's nothing. The fellow is probably mad."

Held in St. Louis for possession of $20,000 in bonds believed stolen was famed, suave Swindler "Yellow Kid" Weil, 54. Asked what had become of his beard, he replied: "Gone since 1918. It was like this. With that yellow-red beard that got me my name, I looked just like J. Ham [Hamilton] Lewis, the Senator from Illinois. . . . Sometimes it caused complications for me and, I suppose, for him, too. So I did the handsome thing. . . ."

In a Washingon taxicab, Mrs, J. Hamilton Lewis, wife of Illinois' pink-bearded Senator, left her bag containing $1,000 in traveler's checks, some cash and a easeful of jewels. Next day the cabdriver returned it. On her husband's advice, Mrs. Lewis decided to pay the reward in instalments: $200 down, $100 a month for three months.

In New York, Lexicographer Frank Horace Vizetelly announced he had granted official recognition in his Standard Dictionary to the initial-composed "protogram" and the telescope word, both popular in Russia. A protogram: NEP (New Economic Policy). A telescope word: Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.). Commented Dr. Vizetelly: "The newly-liberated Russian people have the same love for big words which distinguishes all civilizations in the formative state. They give institutions magniloquent titles, then find it is too much trouble to pronounce them."

Supplementing previous gifts for the restoration of Italian antiquities, art-loving Merchant Samuel Henry Kress (5-10-25-c- chain) gave Premier Mussolini $10,500 to complete the rebuilding of Mantua's Ducal Palace.

On his estate near Fairhaven, N. J., Manufacturer William Gerhard Mennen (toilet goods) was awakened at dawn by the barking of his four-month-old Scotch terrier, Scotty. He got up "to raise the devil with the dog," found his house in flames. Rousing his wife, he discovered the stairway to the servants' quarters blocked, telephoned the fire department, dashed into the kitchen to unleash the dog, rushed outdoors in his night clothes. Firemen soon arrived, rescued the unconscious servants, could not save the house. Manufacturer Mennen looked around the lawn, found Scotty lying dead of smoke suffocation.

Banging and hissing into the Combahee River, S. C. duck preserves of Broker Edward F, Hutton, Manhattan socialite, soared many a skyrocket, roman candle & firecracker, set off by angry hunters. They charged he had caused or permitted ducks to be scared from other preserves so that his own might be well-filled. Warned the Charleston Record in an editorial titled "Hutton, the Czar of Combahee": "There is a limit to the amount of arrogance human beings will stand from any member of their race. Mr. Hutton may some day learn that because he has bought a piece of property in South Carolina he has not bought every South Carolinian with it."

In New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., publishers, revealed that Swedish Dr. Axel Munthe, hoping to increase his fund for the establishment of a bird sanctuary on the Island of Capri, had sunk the fat royalties from his long best-selling The Story of San Michele in Kreuger stocks.

Ill lay: Matador Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Actresses Ethel Barrymore and Louise Closser Hale, of pneumonia in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Hollywood respectively; Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrdt of influenza, in Boston; Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 68, onetime President of Rockefeller Foundation and University of Minnesota, after an appendectomy, in Greenwich, Conn.; Norman B. Woolworth, cousin of the late tycoon Winfield (5 & 10-c-) Woolworth. aboard his chartered yacht Cyprus, near Charleston, S. C.

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