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...season. Those divergents from the norms of humanity started Dr. Humberd, 40, a curly-headed bookworm, on a study of gigantism. He has hats, shoes, rings and other souvenirs of most of the circus giants of the U. S. (see p. 45), but nothing so meticulous as his record cf Robert Wadlow, which he obtained only after "a lavish and continued expenditure of much cajolery, flattery, servility, wheedling and exaggerated politeness and persistence...
...rains 600 miles to the west had a bigger influence on Washington politics. The Ohio-Mississippi flood had brought to the Capital an emergency atmosphere not unlike that of the early months of the New Deal. Congressmen once more hungered for Federal aid and Franklin Roosevelt resumed the prestige cf the Great White Father to whom all must appeal...
...rallied those whom he calls upon in all major" catastrophes: his Reliever-in-Chief, Harry Hopkins, his Commander of Public Health, Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr., his mover of battalions, Chief of Staff Malin Craig, the Army's ranking engineer, Major General Edward Murphy Markham, the chairman cf the American Red Cross. Dr. Gary T. Grayson, and many another. Together they mapped and planned how to care for a million suffering citizens, how to mitigate $400,000,000 worth of property damage in Mid-U. S., how to save other millions in humanity and property from damage...
...produced a team for the scheduled game. Seven staunch men of Dudley held the powerful Kirkland team to 19 runs, while pushing five runs by the Deacons. KIRKLAND (19) DUDLEY (5) Carr, s.c. Moser, 2b 2b, Turesky Walsh, 1b 1b, G. Simon Howe, c Kessler, p p, Banner Feder, cf cf, Cohen Newbold, lf lf, Jacobson Marks, ss ss, A. Simon Davis 3b 3b, Bronstein
...sluggers found pitcher Andrews of the Elephants for nine runs in the first two innings. ADAMS (14) ELIOT (0) Leen, c c, Oates Mason, p p, Andrews Curtiss, 1b 1b, Waters Van Evera, 2b 2b, Newman Clark, 3b 3b, Brooks Hauck, ss ss, Amory Ruch, lf lf, Demeter Morgan, cf cf, Dowse Fitzpatrick, rf rf, Kaplan Rotter, sc KIRKLAND (22) LOWELL (2) Howe, c c, Snyder Kessler, p p, Cornell Walsh, 1b 1b, Cleveland Moser, 2b 2b, Viets Davis, 3b 3b, Webster Wills, ss ss, Brown Carr, lf lf, Scott Cusack, cf cf, Gale Elcock, rf rf, Finn Mayne...