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...notoriously uncharitable critic, acknowledged as "the greatest ragtime writer that ever lived." In a book packed with the high-sounding names of old ragtime wizards and composers ("Blind Boone," "Jack the Bear," "One-Leg Shadow"), a quiet-mannered, softspoken, scholarly little man stands out above them all: Scott Joplin, the composer of Maple Leaf...
...group, called the International Council of Community Churches, will act in an advisory capacity to some 300 of the 3,000 autonomous, nondenominational Community Churches** in the U.S. (total membership: more than 1,000,000). Its first president: the Rev. John R. Howe of Joplin, Mo. "We are entered on one of the most significant movements in the history of the church," he told the delegates. "Nothing quite like it has ever happened before...
...quit Vanderbilt University to take a $45-a-month job as "cashier, bookkeeper, janitor and meter repairman" for Doherty's Webb City & Carterville Gas Co. A self-taught wizard with figures, he moved up to auditor and treasurer of Doherty's electric company at Joplin, Mo. When he went to Manhattan that year for a company meeting, Jones's knowledge of budgeting so impressed Frank Frueauff, Doherty's partner, that Jones was made Frueauff's assistant. Less than two years later, Frueauff died, and Doherty gave 30-year-old Pete Jones...
First Lien. In Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Mabel Tarrant charged that her husband claimed he was justified in removing her false teeth to prevent her from visiting friends: he had paid for them...
Howard's father, Howard Robard Hughes Sr., was not exactly a nobody, although he came from a place the Ganos had never heard of-Keokuk, Iowa. Son of a Harvard-bred lawyer, he was expelled from several schools, but got through Harvard and hung out his shingle in Joplin, Mo. The lure of oil drew him to Texas. He made a small stake, bought a long Peerless car, met Allene Gano, married...