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Died. Sir Henry Worth ("Hank") Thornton, 61, Indiana-born railroad renovator (England's Great Eastern, Canada's Canadian National); of pneumonia and uremic poisoning; in Manhattan. Giant (6-ft.-4-in.), ruddy Thornton played football for University of Pennsylvania (1891-94); was called from the Long Island Railroad in 1914 when Great Eastern's chairman found no "man in England capable of extricating us." Having solved Britain's complex Wartime train problems he was picked in 1922 for president & board chairman of Canadian National to save it from becoming "a spineless nuisance with nobody to kick...
...eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages till he was laid off. Then he sat around Union Square waiting for his money to run out. In the next apartment house Mr. Boardman, respectable widower, lived in increasingly uncomfortable sin with his gold-digging...
...Communist rally Leon was there, whooping it up for the Party: but it was unemployed Hank Austin, no Communist, who got beaten up, his spine paralyzed under the hoofs of the mounted police. Jason's carelessly flung cigaret set the tenement afire; when Leon clashed in to warn Helen he found her and her Mexican naked as the truth. Mr. Boardman, who had rented a top-floor room that day to watch his cuckolding, became an unidentified corpse. The demented printer in his basement wrote that Rome was burning. Next morning Mother Volga and Mr. Feibelman raced to their...
...golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac, N. Y., civil engineer; Eddie Eagan, famed amateur boxer; Baron Walther von Mumm, onetime "champagne king" of Rheims; Jay O'Brien, Manhattan socialite...
Jockey Gilbert, 18, and Jockey Hank Mills, 17, who finished the season with 196 winners, erroneously credited Jockey Gilbert witha record, because he had ridden more winners than Jockey Lee Hardy in 1927 (207). In 1908, Jockey Vincent Powers, now trainer of Mrs. Payne Whitney's steeplechasers, rode 324 winners. Jockey Walter Miller, stable rider for the late James R. Keene, famed for his skill in handling mounts at the barrier, won 388 races...