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...Joaquin himself always stoutly maintained that it was in "a covered wagon, pointed West." Both had escaped the fact: Joaquin (pronounced Wah-Keen) was actually, born in bed on a farm near Liberty, Ind. in 1837, and never climbed aboard a covered wagon till he was a strapping six-footer of 14. Nonetheless, it was a strangely modest yarn for Miller, who spent a lifetime stretching the truth about himself until it snapped. Famed on two continents at the turn of the century as the "Poet of the Sierras," and touted by critics of the day as the peer...
...until the Shields family moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1901, that young Corny got out in his first boat. His father, by then the president of the Dominion Iron & Steel Ltd., bought his family a 15-footer. In that, and in a later 25-ft. Class R type sloop, Corny learned what every good sailor must learn: how to anticipate and take advantage of every little change in weather and tide. By 1909, when the family was settled down in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., 14-year-old Corny was the acknowledged skipper of the 25-footer...
...even naval duties did not prevent Corny Shields from doing some racing. In those days, each squadron had a sailboat or so for racing competition, and in the post-armistice winter of 1918-19, when Corny was stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he skippered the winning 33-footer in a fleet competition...
Perkins likes his job, which he compares to boot-legging, because one meets such interesting people. "It's the best job you can have if your tastes run that way, and mine do," he explains. A lean and balding six-footer who wears glasses so he can see across the class room, Perkins has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of Harvard history and lore. But he will get up during even a casual conversation for a book to verify a name or a class, a habit which he charges, off to a historian's insistence on exactitude. Perkins' field is Eighteenth...
...crossed from right to left and Howe swung wide to the right. Quick as a flash, Lindsay backhanded a pass to Howe. Hardly checking his speed, Howe picked up the puck on his stick, whirled past the defenseman, feinted Goalie Rollins out of position, and fired a sizzling 20-footer into the net. Time & again the pair had worked this strategy. This one was a milestone: Howe's 200th goal in N.H.L. play, his 40th this season. In the third period, again with an assist from Captain Lindsay, Howe netted...