Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some channel of friendship or finance, Personality, six-months-old pet magazine of potent Publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday, obtained, and last week brought to light, excerpts from the childish diary of a puny boy who, born 69 years ago, was destined to grow strapping strong, fearlessly articulate and world-famed as Theodore Roosevelt...
Ivan Mestrovic is a frowning, intense, darkly bearded Jugoslav who began life as a Dalmatian shepherd boy, became apprenticed to a stone cutter, and developed such a recognized genius for sculpture that he has been retained by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at high fees to execute the plaques which accompany its $25,000 peace prizes (TIME...
...Transport Co. which is building a huge plane for service between Oakland, Calif., and Chicago: "I am a sophomore at Vanderbilt University and I am very much interested in commercial aviation. I would like very much to get a job on one of your planes as a messenger boy or page...
...against St. Mary's. Last week, against Oakland Technical High School, Catcher Fiedler came to bat again in the ninth. Two strikes were called on him. The runner on second base hung his head, looked at the scoreboard that showed the University team one run behind. The bat boy was picking up the bats, the pitcher pitched, Catcher Fiedler swung wildly, hit the ball, knocked it out of the lot. "Another Casey," chortled California freshmen...
Died. William Cameron Sproul, 57, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania, Candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1920 and long a leader in Republican politics; at Nether Providence Township near Chester, Pa. Successively farm boy, newspaper owner, manufacturer, politician, he was known as the "father of good roads in Pennsylvania." His favorite poem, "Crossing the Bar" by Tennyson, was recited at the funeral attended by leading Pennsylvanians...