Sportsmen clash with rules in wide ranging tales from fields
A lively column lampooning sport rules and antics across baseball golf horse racing and football. It names figures such as Babe Phelps Lee Grissom McGraw and Cal Meade and notes incidents from Brooklyn spiking to Derby tactics and Ryder Cup shifts. It also cites amateurs seeking bids and coaches shifting plans.
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Brooklyn
Lee Grissom
Babe Phelps
David
Goliath
Don Meade
Maryland
United States
England
Crusaders For
Spec Towns
Georgia
Tech
Glenn Cunningham
Jack Irwin
Princeton
Gene Venske
Randalls Island
Archie Sao Romani
Denver
Little
Lafayette
Esky Clark
Lewis
Ernie Nevers
Stanford
Ple Traynor
The
Pirates
Jerry Day
Tommy Pierce
Babson Institute
Army
Boston College
Gil Dobie
Gil
Jimmy Marks
Kiski
Lawson
Goodman
Sarafaci
Fischer
Dunlap
Princetons
Yales
Tigers
Malcolm Farmer
Eli Athletics
al Lane
Princeton Frosh
Art Lane
Steve Cullinan
Life paths shaped by parents and chance in two storied lives
The piece recounts Josef Stalin’s forced priestly training and rise to power, contrasted with Joan Crawford’s hard scrabble path from Texas to Hollywood. It notes Stalin’s arrests, exile, and dictatorship, and Crawford’s early jobs, moves, and eventual sign by MGM. It emphasizes personal ambition and perseverance.
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Josef Stalin
Tiflis
Stalin
Josef Vissarionovitch Drugashvili
Josef
Gori
Russia
Sem
Questions and answers on population, law and judgment
The piece states one birth every 14 seconds and one new immigrant every 15 minutes in the United States, notes Blackstone was deemed a failure by Collier's Weekly, contrasts baseball and football injuries, sets an escape speed of 6.95 miles per second, estimates elephants eat 10 tons daily if proportioned to a mouse, and cites a 1801 act closing the Supreme Court for 14 months until February 1803.
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United States
William Blackstone
United States Supreme Court
Sir William Blackstone
England
Collier's Weekly
Congress
Supreme Court
Uncle His Sayings and Witty Adages Featured
A collection of aphorisms on social behavior, generosity, efficiency, culture, and common sense. The items praise practical helpfulness, self reliance, and sensible living with concise, quippy maxims.
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John Joseph McGraw
McGraw
Pittsburgh
Wrigley Field
Max Bodenheim
New York
Mike Jacobs
Red Bank
N. J
Fred Fitzsimmons
Waite Hoyt
Dodgers
Fliz
John J. McGraw
Hoyt
Miller Huggins
Reds
Fort Worth
Houston
Bill Barfield
Florida
Ducky Pond
Yale
Larry Kelley
Greasy Neale Brain
Harry Bill
Lawrenceville
Frankie Strafaci
Frankie
Lawson Little
Batum
Stockholm
Lenin
Trotsky
Joan Crawford
Dan Crawford
San Antonio
Texas
Joan
Lawton
Oklo
Kansas City
Crawford
Chicago
Detroit
Shubert
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Planta
Jeb
HE Ein Liberia
Cluber
Firestone
Vane
Firestone Save
Firestone Auto Supply Service
Firestone Auto
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Firestone Aargaret