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...Folsom, wife of Alabama's mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, checked into a Montgomery hospital for treatment. Lumbering soon after her was Kissin' Jim himself, who sagged into a bed and summoned an old friend, Montgomery Advertiser Editor Grover Hall, for a hot scoop. The gubernatorial secret: although father of five by Jamelle (plus two by his late first wife, Sarah), sympathetic Big Jim gets morning sickness every time the lady of the house does. "Damn right," groaned he. Even liquor wouldn't cure this attack...
Columbia's Allan Nevins, 68, De Witt Clinton Professor of American History and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. A stumpy, explosively energetic man who impatiently brushes away his age and anything else that interferes with his 6:30 a.m.-to-11:15 p.m. workday, he has written some 25 volumes, edited a dozen others. Historian Nevins was an editorial writer on the New York World and other papers until 1931, joined Columbia's staff as a full professor that year. but never found time...
...East. He was nominated as G.O.P. reform candidate for mayor of New York City-and lost. He went to London and married a childhood playmate named Edith Kermit Carow. He settled down in Washington for six years (1889-95) as Civil Service Commissioner (under Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland), then put in two years as police board chairman of New York City (1895-97), booting out corrupt cops, promoting the worthy and rewarding the brave, making headlines by prowling the slums with his reform-minded friend Jacob (How the Other Half Lives') Riis. Wrote T.R.: "I am dealing...
...Series, a Yankee hit a ball into the left-field bleachers. It was foul by one foot. A home run would have won the Series, but Grover Cleveland Alexander went on to strike out Tony Lazzeri and become "the courageous old man" who fought off a hangover to save the Series for the Cardinals...
...game with the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Southpaw Warren Spahn got credit for a 9-3 victory, became the first major league pitcher to win 20 games this season. A veteran of 13 years with the Braves, Spahn moves into the record book alongside Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander and Lefty Grove, all great pitchers who won 20 games or more for eight or more seasons...