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...Walter Beaver, electrician of Berwyn, Pa.: the Grand American Handicap, No. 1 trapshooting event of the year; with 25 breaks in a row in the shoot-off, to 23 for 17-year-old Ned Lilly of Stanton, Mich., U. S. Junior Champion, after both had broken 98 out of 100; at Vandalia, Ohio. ¶All-star footballers representing the Midwest: a game against the Pacific Coast, coached by Howard Jones of the University of Southern California, with seven of his last year's team in the lineup; 13 to 7, largely because of a brilliant performance by Michigan...
...Joseph F. Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio: the 500-target amateur trapshooting championship of the world, with 497 breaks (including an unfinished run of 326) to 494 for Walter S. Beaver of Berwyn, Pa.; at Yorklyn, Del. ¶ Jack Hagen, Long Island golf professional (no kin): a prize in the N. Y. World-Telegram's hole-in-one competition when, first to play among more than 400 entrants, he plunked his third try (out of five allowed) into the hole (148 yd.) on the fly. The hole used was on his home Salisbury Country Club links. ¶ Red-headed Donald...
...fiction, Author Bromfield does not try to make what he has to say seem like a story. The book is a collection of notes about the people whose lives touch Hallie Chambers, the Colonel's simple guide, "had a thin tough horse and wore buckskin pants . . . and a beaver cap. . . . The Colonel thought that at last he had discovered Jean Jacques' 'natural man'. . . ." Weiler, the innkeeper, told the Colonel and his Jesuit friend, Father Duchesne, about "the young man called Lazare who lived with the Indians but was white and remembered mobs and torches...
...street of an ancient mining town, wedged in a gulch a mile and a half above sea level. Above the main street the houses of Central City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second annual Central City Play Festival, blowing on the cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central...
...moment that it was whispered that Doc Crawford was the plunger whom Secretary of Agriculture Wallace shamed as largely responsible for the crash in grain prices, the Crawford legend grew like a puffball. Last week auditors were plowing through the books in his tiny office at No. 60 Beaver St., Manhattan, trying to find out just where the secretive little onetime physician stood. Few believed that Doc Crawford was a ruined man. Though he curtly refused to be interviewed it was reported that even he did not know the extent of his huge commitments...