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...hole in the World-Telegram's 1934 Hole-in-One contest. Odds against a hole-in-one are about 20,000-to-1. After 2,235 balls had been played last week, the closest to a winner was one hit by Edward Searle, 26, a Manhattan brick company sales clerk. It bounced across the cup, stopped 17 in. to the left...
Julius Rosenwald 2nd, grandson of Sears, Roebuck's late board chairman, reported to Sears' Seattle branch, ready to begin work as a clerk. Asked about the business, he protested: "Say, I'm just a kid that's starting from the bottom. I'm going to start learning something about it tomorrow. I'd start today but I've got hay fever...
...championships at Chicago month ago, broke the world's record for the mile in 20:57.8. smashing the records for the 350, 1,100 and 1,320-yd. distances on his way. At 19, he now holds seven world and eleven U. S. records. Son of an Italian office clerk, Swimmer Medica likes spaghetti, milk, beer. Excessively lazy, he walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called upon to swim. Like Miss McKean, he learned young, in Seattle's Green Lake. Last week, with Al Vande Weghe, 17-year...
After five hours the Bordens were turned loose and in pitch darkness struggled back along a lonely road toward Istanbul. By extreme good luck they met Adam Cieminsky, clerk of the U. S. Military Attaché at Istanbul, and from that instant things moved fast...
...years ago. Son of the U. S. Legation secretary, John O'Hara became private secretary to the U. S. Minister at 17. In 1906 he was making market surveys for the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce, in 1907 following his father to Santos, Brazil as consular clerk. Then he went back to the U. S. and entered Notre Dame...