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...lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first guess was that a new medicine show had come to town were not entirely wrong. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, 47, nostrum peddler, was stumping every county in the State, conducting his independent gubernatorial campaign...
...going to bow our heads after the election; bow in shame that the intelligent, patriotic people of this State did not have the sense or the courage to avert this disgrace? Shall Kansans be greeted by a gibing baaa, the cry of the billy goat, when they walk the streets of other States...
...made saws, jugs, hammocks, hatchet, carpenter's plane, outhouse with scroll-sawed star & crescent, pickaxe, baskets, architect's plans; has taught a parrot to say "O.K.," his dog to be civil to a monkey that vaguely resembles Fairbanks. Soon afterward he has dug traps, caught a goat, made the he-goat run a treadmill to churn the she-goat's milk, trained a turtle to follow food dangled by a stick in a circle, thereby lifting water from a well to run down a chute, over a fire and out of a faucet marked "Hot." He lives in a "penthouse...
...head the Board of Aldermen. In 1929 he was re-elected with more votes than even Mayor Walker. Once he nearly broke up a Board of Estimate meeting by correcting a Tammany clerk who persisted in reading a petition for the Goethe Society as if it were spelled "goat." Mayor McKee is married, has two sons, spends his summers at Mamaroneck. To Broadway and its night life he is unknown. He does not smoke, drink, wisecrack. He golfs in the 90's. Modest and self-effacing, he referred to himself last week as "acting mayor...
...were appalled when Frank Wykoff of Southern California, Bob Kiesel of the University of California and Hector Dyer of the Los Angeles A. C. were shut out by Tolan, Metcalfe and George Simpson in the Olympic trials. With Emmett Toppino of New Orleans, Wykoff, Kiesel and Dyer formed a "goat" relay team which last week set an incredibly fast world's record (40 sec.) in the 400-metre final, with Germany second. In the 1,600-metre relay Bill Carr led in the British anchor man, Lieut. Godfrey Rampling, by 20 yd. The world's record...