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...Highway 71 begins in Kansas City, ends at Baton Rouge, La. It passes through northwest Arkansas en route and serves the town of Rogers (pop. 3,500). From a drugstore window there, 35-year-old Clerk Cloe Mitchell often ruminated on the volume, speed and danger of passing traffic. Not long ago Cloe Mitchell decided to do something about...
Irish Free State Senator were in Philadelphia. Madagascar sent the clerk of its meeting, a Negro whose name is simply Andrianaly. For the benefit of reporters he played with his hands, arms and elbows a twelve-stringed instrument called the valiha. Thirteen of Germany's 250 Friends were permitted to make the trip to Philadelphia. One of them, Hans Albrecht, said to a reporter: "The future of Quakerism in the Reich is assured. Perhaps I should not say that, for if the government hears of it, they may say, 'Hello, what is this?' and we might find...
...grew older, Owney became irritable and testy. The Post Office Department frowned on him. But in spite of official displeasure Owney's friends, the clerks, kept him traveling. Owney came to the end of his journeys in Toledo. He bit a post-office clerk, and on June 12, 1897, he was shot. But such was Owney's fame that he was stuffed and placed in a glass case in the Smithsonian Institution. For 40 years Owney sat in his niche in the Smithsonian, awaiting a successor. It is now fairly certain there will never be another quite like...
...woods were crooked, his irons ragged his putter helpless, and he was beaten 6 & 5 by Ray Billows, straight-hitting, 23-year-old printing salesman of Poughkeepsie N. Y. In the other semi-final match Johnny Goodman, Omaha insurance salesman nosed out Marvin ("Bud") Ward, Tacoma tax clerk. That left Goodman v. Billows for the final...
...colt: the 33rd running of the Hopeful Stakes, richest ($31,450 to the winner) race of the Saratoga season; by three lengths over a field of top-notch juveniles; before a closing-day crowd of 20,000; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. C. Bespectacled Stanley Wooderson. London bank clerk: a special mile race in 4:06.6, breaking the world's record of 4:06.8 set by Kansas' Glenn Cunningham at Princeton in 1934; to become the first Englishman in 55 years to set a new world's record at that distance; at Hotspur Park, London...