Word: blacksmiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peter Foley was only moderately flushed by his 26-mile jog. Skeptics along the sidelines suspected that the grinning oldster was guilty of some capricious prank. But they were mistaken. White-whiskered, toothless Peter Foley, who weighs only 119 pounds but has a blacksmith's handshake, had actually run the full marathon distance. But he had started two hours ahead of the field...
...possibility that Oklahoma's politicians had encouraged old folks to confuse their program with the Townsend plan. Whatever the cause, Oklahoma's oldsters had leaped onto the bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were not 65 years of age. Among the discovered beneficiaries were 157 corpses, twelve inmates of insane asylums. Over 1.400 case files were missing. Other interesting pensioners...
...Otto Zachow, a blacksmith in Clintonville, Wis., noted how often automobiles bogged down in Wisconsin's muddy roads. It did not occur to Zachow that roads would be improved. He decided that automobiles would not be practical until their power was transmitted to all four wheels so their front wheels could pull their hind wheels out of mudholes. Blacksmith Zachow went to work in his brick machine shop, devised the world's first four-wheel drive car. The sprawling factories of Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. now employ almost a fourth of Clintonville's 3,500 residents...
...painting by his wife, Georgia, despite the acquisition of a fine white Irish hunter. Last week the Rehn Galleries hung a fresh collection of Carroll's diaphanous, warm, pink nudes, glinting pickaninny-like Negresses, superbly deft drawings. Done with less delicacy and more fire than usual were Blacksmith, a composition reminiscent of Franklin Watkins, and Deep Down Blue, a black girl rolling her eyeballs in a voodoo dance. Biggest & best designed picture: Summer Afternoon (see cut), a wispy girl putting up her hair while her contented swain stretches his toes...
...chance to crush Joe's bones in public, winner take Sadie. Ed sent Joe in to lose, reversed his instructions halfway through the match when Madison Square Garden wired an offer. But when the troupe left, Loser Noah was Garden-bound, Winner Joe happy in the blacksmith shop with his admiring prize...