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Champion Louis had entered the ring a favorite at odds ranging from 5-to-1 to 7-to-1, and the odds generally quoted that he would win by a knockout were 5-to-2. Most sportswriters had reasoned that, although Louis was vulnerable, especially to a right to the...
At this point in Harry Patterson's tale of himself most readers will be settling down for a good time. The transparent simplicity of the Patterson narrative style rarely overreaches itself in such cuteness as "The wind . . . was still as still," generally flows with something like Huckleberry Finn'...
One day last week President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Summer Welles for Under Secretary, of Robert Walton Moore for Counselor, of the State Department. Next day both came back confirmed. Thus did Secretary of State Hull escape from a quandary, for Sumner Welles, a dapper, twice...
Off to run the Bilbao blockade went the Backworth with the blessings of most Britons behind it. Not Lloyd George or even the Back-worth was responsible for the sudden pro-Leftist switch in British opinion last week but a group of blustering captains of rusty little British freighters. While...
Although at 18 he was a $10,000-a-year veteran, Pitcher Feller this spring was still enough of a novelty to distract baseball addicts' attention from the recruit players who usually make most training-camp news. Most remarkable rookies of the year appeared to be Giant Pitcher Carl...