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...that Jefferson was more of an intellectual and less a man of action than perhaps any other American hero. His character was more complex, harder to classify than most. But as a youth he was not precocious or abnormal in the usual sense. He was tall, redheaded, a good horseman, a fiddle player, a hunter, youthfully fond of girls, dancing, cards and conversation. He youthfully spent too much money in his first year at William and Mary (playing cards and sowing his wild oats) and youthfully resolved to do better the next year. But-unyouthfully-he kept his resolve, studied...
...excellent horseman, El Gitano went on foot in the mountains to escape detection. In town he would throw off his rags, dress immaculately, ride in taxis. El Gitano began his shooting career when bandits killed his father, raped his sister. Since then, he was credited with more than 100 murders, some for money, some "just for the hell...
...glamorous ball-carriers of 20 years ago are carrying the ball again. Last week Illinois' Galloping Ghost of 1924 joined two of Notre Dame's famed 1924 Four Horsemen to form a ruling triumvirate of pro football: 1) ex-Horseman Elmer Layden, now serving his third season as $20,000-a-year commissioner of the National League; 2) ex-Horseman Jim Crowley, named last fortnight as the boss of the newly organized All-America Conference; 3) Harold ("Red") Grange, elected president of the also-projected U.S. League. Still to be heard from was Trans-America, the third...
Died. Hiram Edward Manville, 71, onetime head of Johns-Manville Corp.; after long illness; in Pleasantville, N.Y. Philanthropist, horseman, yachtsman, he sold his palatial Hi-Esmaro to the Navy in 1940, three years later learned that she had been sunk in the South Pacific...
...whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...