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...Louis, Perpetual King Jeff Davis opened the 29th annual "greatest and best" convention of the Hoboes of America. In a grimy hall in the flophouse district, 100 delegates heard greetings from Ohio's Representative Herbert S. ("Brother Bo") Bigelow, New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing who sent a $10 contribution, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. Unanimously the hoboes voted to lobby for benches and cots in railroad boxcars and a special 1?-a-mile hobo rail rate, applauded King Davis when he thumped for enforcement...
...main billing of the evening, "Sea Devils," goes in for the usual he-man McLaglen activities with the Coast Guard offering a convenient excuse for several good shots of icebergs, ships in distress, breeches buoy, and dozens of manly blows between the smiling Tim O'Shay, (Preston Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture...
...gregarious sidelines in the winter. Umpire Ernest Quigley, a National League veteran of 22 years, has a hog ranch in Kansas. Until recently, he also taught English history and mathematics at St. Mary's College in Kansas. Umpire Charles Moran was football coach at Centre College, developed famed "Bo" McMillin. Umpire "Beans" Reardon, famed for his raucous voice, is a Hollywood bit-part actor. Umpire George Barr is professor of umpiring at the Doan School of Baseball at Hot Springs, Ark. Umpire Bill Klem, dean of his profession at 62 and long past the length of service at which...
...Plains, N. Y., declare: ''The Church is spending too much effort reaching the nice little boys instead of the hell-raisers. And while I'm at it, let me say something in favor of that grand old word, hell. I'd like to know the bo who first called that word profane. The ministry could do nothing better than legitimatize it. Hell is the only word you can use to say, 'It's as hot as,' or 'as cold as' or 'as dry as.' You just...
...petty North Indian rajah, clan-named Gautama, Buddha was born near the middle of the Sixth Century B. C., left home at 29, sat six years under a Bo tree, died...