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Said Sports Columnist Grantland Rice: "No one is going to stop gambling...
When the Jones clique learned he wanted to be a prize fighter they formed a syndicate to back him: 22 of them, including Jones, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Actor Frank Crumit, Socialite Tommy Tailer, Stockbroker Clifford Roberts, L. B. Maytag (washing machines), Bartlett Arkell (BeechNut Co.), Aired Severin Bourne (Singer sewing machines) and many another gold-spooned golfer. To manage their waif, they got Chick Wergeles, a Broadway press agent...
Captain F. P. Adams columned on the paper for ten weeks then was transferred to other duties. Lieut. Grantland Rice went to work the issue that the sport page was abolished. "Rank-&-Filers" Mark Watson and Stephen Early were Major Watson and Captain Early. Alexander Woollcott was a sergeant, and the official roster doesn't list a single Marx -let alone Harpo. So, it seems, the only authentic private of your picked group is Harold Ross...
Alexander Woollcott, "Harpo" Marx, Grantland Rice, F. P. A., Mark Watson (Sunday editor of the Baltimore Sun), Harold Ross (New Yorker editor), Stephen T. Early (Presidential press secretary) would make quite a staff for a weekly paper. Once they did. They and other rank-&-filers (officers were outlawed) made journalistic history in World War I by publishing the A.E.F.'s Stars & Stripes, which ran its circulation to over 500,000, won praise in Pershing's memoirs as the biggest morale builder of the A.E.F...
Peabody--left guard on Grantland Rice's all-American eleven (selection not yet announced but virtually assured...