Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from a suite in the Hotel McAlpin. He adopted two Chinese boys...
...Marilyn Miller, blue-eyed dancer, $100,000 for a first picture. $100,000 for a second, $150,000 for a third. She has contracted with First National. Sued-First National, by Jack Case, stunter: $75 for being thrown to the ground while riding two bucking horses at the same time; $10 per fall for seven falls from a running horse; $25 per run for 24 runs driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into...
Coombs is captain of the visiting team and has been its star hurler and nephew of the famous Jack Coombs of Philadelphia Athletics fame and so far gives every indication of following in his uncle's footsteps...
...Harvard singers will give a public performance at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; later in the month a program will be rendered at the home of Mrs. Jack Gardner; and on May 30 Harvard will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, in a concert which will constitute part of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Radcliffe's founding. The Glee Club is at present rehearsing the "Hymn to Jesus" by Gustav Hoist for presentation at the last named concert...
...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...