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...left school in his teens to work on the railroad at 40? an hour. Later, Crump finished high school in night classes, took a leave of absence in 1926 to earn a railway mechanical-engineering degree at Indiana's Purdue University. He was hired back as a night foreman, advanced through various jobs until his combination of hard-rock experience, engineering skill and business talent paid off with the top vice-presidency...
Thanks to a Hungarian D.P. who had stopped by for a few games at the Bauern-Lola before he made his way to the U.S. Kronach found its new opponents in Peoria. Ill. There, Distillery Foreman Henry Cramer listened to Kronach's ambassador and wrote to Bavaria suggesting an international match to be carried on by mail. Each town fielded a 21-man team, with each member carrying on two games at the same time...
That was in the spring of 1951. Foreman Cramer, as Peoria's playing secretary, kept up a monumental correspondence with Alfred Joanni manager of a Kronach porcelain factory and the only man in the Kronach club who spoke English. For four years, the international airmail match ground on. Although each letter was vitally concerned with the progress of 42 chess games Joanni and Cramer managed to mix in some gossip, too. "We got to know the families and troubles of partners across the ocean." says Joanni. ''Pictures were exchanged. When one of the Americans died...
...heah whut thet maan said? INSAHD the haouse!" As they ride out to the ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right out, "Kin we see it naow?" "Yup," says the foreman. The two men brace themselves, walk shoulder to shoulder to the front door of the main ranch house, open it, walk through the bedroom, open the door beyond. Timidly Cowboy Douglas peeks in. His eyes bulge...
...cheerfulness, commented a foreman in the Central Kitchen, makes it difficult to believe that she was born in 1892. But Mrs. Corballis has modern tastes, including Jazz and the Republicans. "I used to be a Democrat," she explains, "but they never did anything for me." To keep up with the world, she reads the American and follows the lives of Tony DeSpirito and Jack Dempsey. "It's good to see Ted Williams back," she added, "we need...