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...father who was a woolen crape-maker by trade and a fencer by hobby and a mother who excelled in flower-painting had a child. His name was Thomas Gainsborough, and he was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. This lad early showed a natural talent for drawing; by the age of ten he had sketched every interesting tree and cottage around Sudbury. In his uncle's grammar school he filled his textbooks with caricatures of the schoolmaster...
...Wickwire-Spencer chn Ink & wire fencer...
...impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape to further reduce their "biting power," and also instructed and trained each fencer not to strike his opponent...
...Angeles Junior College fencer, I would like to protest the miserable reporting of our "bloody Heidelberg duel." It is not altogether your fault, since all the newspapers in this city carried the erroneous story...
Moving spirit of this extraordinary performance, which was claimed to have drawn "the first blood ever intentionally shed by U. S. college fencers," was Los Angeles Junior's lively Fencing Coach John Tatum, who exulted: "We have been trying to arrange an affair like this for three years to popularize fencing." The college publicity department had timed it to coincide with a campus dance. Nothing was at stake except Student Bauer's desire for the No. 2 rating on the fencing team, which Student Cousineau enjoyed by virtue of his showing in the Pacific Coast fencing tournament last...