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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born next door to the county fair grounds in Wyoming, Ill., blue-eyed Lee Townsend hung around horses from the time he could walk. Gypsy horse traders who camped near the track every summer taught him how to judge a horse's legs and wind. When he was older, he walked race horses around the ring while the grooms shook up the stalls. On Sundays he read funny papers to an old Negro jockey named Tom Connors, wrote letters for him to his girls. It was several years before young Townsend learned why the old Negro used to line...
...remaining five games would be merely exhibitions. Played in The Hague before a large gallery of chess experts, the game ended after 43 moves when Dr. Euwe resigned, relaxed, reached his hand across the board to congratulate his opponent. After two months of play. Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, Russian-born Parisian, had regained the world's chess championship he won in 1927 from Cuban Jose Capablanca, lost in 1935 to Dr. Euwe (TIME...
...Padre" Abbate's people believe that he was not born of mortal parents but formed from "the ashes of Jesus Christ." Once he crowned the small daughter of one of his Italian-born parishioners, Mrs. Grace Ippolita, as "the Virgin Mary," instructing his followers to worship her. In 1923 the "Celestial Messenger" was convicted of ravishing a small girl, was adjudged insane. Convicted later of two more attacks, Abbate was occasionally in jail but always turned loose because of his original insanity. In the Elgin State Hospital (Illinois), where he spent two years, clad in clerical garb, Abbate became...
With the persistence of born salesmen, business leaders continued their peace gestures, notably after last year's election when both N.A.M. and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce seemed determined to cooperate with the President if it killed them. Not until Recession had softened his mood, however, was Franklin D. Roosevelt ready to listen. The situation, both Business and the President must know, is now too critical for malice on either side. If the President is as willing to play ball with Business as he reports himself to be, Business now has the ball with three years...
...Born contemporaries, the two poets are, in most things else, remote relations. Irish MacNeice finds Iceland interesting chiefly as one more queer spot in which to wonder what the devil he is doing there. Sometimes he tries to give a laughless explanation...