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Died. Jack Curley, 61, famed showman and promoter; after a heart attack; in Great Neck, L. I. Born Jacques Armand Schuel of Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden...
...Died. Edward Eugene Loomis, 72, longtime (1917-37) president of the Lehigh Valley R. R. Co.; at Murray Hill, N. J. Born on a farm in Herkimer County, N. Y., he entered railroading immediately after graduation. Through his handling of coal strikes, he was made senior vice president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1902; in 1917 took over the Lehigh Valley and ran it through the World War as the second largest carrier of anthracite...
...Tesla said last week that he was born in 1856 but his Who's Who entry says...
Amelia Earhart was born 39 years ago in Atchison, Kans. Her father was a lawyer and railway claim agent. She went east to study at Columbia University, then west to be with her parents, who had moved to Los Angeles. In California. Amelia saw many more airplanes than in Kansas. The idea of flying excited her. Famed Captain Frank Hawks took her up for her first flight. In 1918 she made her first solo, after ten hours of instruction. Two years later she set a woman's altitude record...
Upon hearing that an eyeless baby was born in Washington last week, officials of the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital revealed that they are building an artificial socket for an artificial eye in the head of a one-eyed baby. Plastic operations began 18 months ago when the baby, a blue-eyed blonde, was 18 months old. Surgeons first slit the skin where her second eye should have been and reamed out a cavity. When this healed, surgeons lined the cavity with mucous membrane taken from the inner surfaces of her cheeks. In the next few days the surgeons expect...