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...pubs around Macclesfield, in England's Cheshire, the regulars have been gassing for years about old John Alcock. Oldsters could still recall the day in 1902 when John, then 62, walked backwards the whole twelve miles from Macclesfield to Buxton, and turned the trick in 3 hr. 14½ min. Last week a relative newcomer named Russell Wright, 46, set out to better old John's time over the same course...
...never rains but it Powers," opined the ancient oriental, "I'm not trying to Sella bill of goods," salaamed the apprentice oracle, "I met a Rizzi Buxton babe with Zawadsky dough, and if you can Reed between the lines, you'll know that we're expecting a little Bunnell of joy just in time for Emery Christmas. Harkins-folk are Palln-g at the prospect...
...when the telephone rang in the midst of the uproar, he calmly picked up the receiver. The man on the other end of the wire, a fast thinking Camden newspaperman named Philip Buxton, said: "I'm a friend . . . how many have you killed...
Died. Colonel George Edward Buxton, 68, who helped found the American Legion in Paris 30.years ago (along with Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Bennett Champ Clark and William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan); of a heart attack; in Providence, R.I. As a World War I battalion commander, Buxton persuaded Alvin C. York,* sometime conscientious objector, that a man could fight his country's enemies and still be a good Christian. In World War II, Textile Tycoon Buxton served as assistant director of the cloak & dagger O.S.S...
Lineman include Jim Dicckelman, Holy Cross; Julian Buxton, Princeton; Bob Hughes, Western Reserve; Jim Talgia, Rutgers; Bob Ochs, Rutgers; and Tom Kelicher, Holy Cross. Backfield men are Frank Burns, Rutgers; Levl Jackson, Yale, George Sella, Princeton; Armand Allaire, Colgate; and Shafer...