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...money will go into a trust fund so that at the end of next season the Slenczynskis will be free to retire their prodigy daughter. Impressible Ruth favors concerts for three months a year at least. Next year's performances will earn her $2,500 apiece, a fatter fee than is asked by such adult artists as José Iturbi, Myra Hess, Vladimir Horowitz, Josef Hofmann...
...Chicago, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, fatter and more surly looking than last July when he lost his title to Primo Camera, climbed into a ring opposite clownish young King Levinsky. Thirty seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump...
...field between the house and the road, the wheat had come up and been harvested. Across the way corn stood four feet high. The inland meadows were dotted with piles of new hay. The cows looked fatter and sleeker than ever. These good sights came under the critical eye of Squire Franklin D. Roosevelt last week when he returned to his native Krum Elbow for the first time since that dark February day he left for Washington to assume the Presidency. "Fine! Perfectly fine," he said half to himself as he drove up & down the dirt roads and appraised...
...Aged 39. fatter than he used to be and nearing the end of the most amazing career in baseball history. Babe Ruth now can be sure of performing his homerun specialty only on great occasions. Such an occasion presented itself last week in Chicago where all-star teams representing the National and American Leagues played what was advertised as "The Game of the Century." Ruth came to bat in the third inning. Pitcher Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals, wild in the second inning when the American League scored its first run. had already given Detroit's Gehringer...
...jester is not to be trusted with the salt. Arthur was in, of, and for the bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow don and failed, overlaid with the thick roll of fleshy matter...