Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train which carried them to the game, there was plenty of free music and beer to banish gloom. As the fleet 14-car special slipped back into Cheyenne that night everybody was content and all were indebted to Wyoming Eagle Publisher Tracy Stephenson McCraken who footed the $2,200 bill for the junket...
Tracy McCraken, now 43, has been by turns editor of Humorist "Bill" Nye's Laramie Boomerang, secretary (1923) to Wyoming's Democratic Governor William Bradford Ross, secretary (1924) to the late U. S. Senator John B. Kendrick. From his political connections sprouted his close friendship with Wyoming's present rulers, oil-rich Governor Leslie Andrew Miller and Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney. These three became Wyoming's famed political steam roller...
...remarkable History of Art of Elie Faure, who died fortnight ago, actually a long, interpretative essay, left still undone the work of writing a factual history of art from an enlightened, modern point of view. This week a large, clear book by Critic Sheldon Cheney* seemed to fill the bill...
Biggest news of the beginning of the new season was the appointment of veteran Player Frank ("King") Clancy to manage the Montreal Maroons, and the accession of William J. ("Bill") Stewart, 42, National League baseball umpire and National League hockey referee, to managership of Major Frederic Mclaughlin's Chicago Blackhawks. Bill Stewart, square-set, affable and bald, preens himself on being one of the least vilified umpires in baseball. He has, however, been mixed up in some fair-to-middling hockey brawls, one of which nearly cost him his arm. While coaching hockey at Milton Academy a decade...
This was promptly demonstrated when. in their opening game last week, Bill Stewart's Blackhawks took a 3-to-0 licking from the revived New York Americans. On the same night the Detroit Red Wings, out to defend the Stanley Cup they have held for two years, played an inauspicious 2-to-2 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Meanwhile, as the other teams in the circuit started their 48-game schedules, Howie Morenz Jr., 11, hung on his wall a hockey stick covered with autographs of his late father's friends, who had taken care...