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...Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer Rebellion, returned to become a Texas ranger. Hired by the old Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal as U. S. boyhood's Hero No. 1. In the films he could never smoke, always married a schoolteacher or rancher's daughter, never dallied saloonwards except to shoot villains fairly. In 1932, rolled on and badly injured by Tony the Wonder Horse, Mix (who was only a fair horseman) retired, was last week...
Wilfred Grenfell spent his boyhood on the Sands of Dee near Cheshire, England. He used to filch biscuits and wine from his school larder to give to fishermen as they left at dawn to catch the early tide. One day the family doctor showed him a pickled brain, and young Wilfred, "thrilled," decided to become a physician. After he graduated from the University of London, he set up an office in fashionable Mayfair, but he longed for the sea. So in June 1892 he set sail with a British hospital ship to spend a summer treating the natives of Labrador...
...accountant in nearby Bogota. So when Mr. Freiwald's 22-year-old son Walter Jr. came home from Plattsburg military training camp last July with infected tonsils. Osteopath Markert, himself only 25, offered to spare the family the expense of a hospital and surgeon. He invited his boyhood friend and schoolmate, Osteopath Thomas O. Maxfield, 27, of Maplewood, to come to his office and remove Walter's tonsils...
...memory of his boyhood idols, Director Lindheimer has named these races after jockeys who made old Washington Park famous at the turn of the century: immortal Isaac Murphy, slaveborn Negro who won four American and three Kentucky Derbies; whip-snapping Snapper Garrison, whose habit of coming from behind to win made "Garrison finish...
...agency is now the Middle West's biggest, he has no new business department (except himself). Wary of prima donnas, he makes all of his executives write advertising copy, writes all of the institutional copy himself. Sample: the current Heinz campaign, which is based on Maxon's boyhood reminiscences. Last year Adman Maxon drew $98,000 salary. In the personal income-tax figures for the whole U. S., he was 53rd on the list...