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...used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong and manufactures 640 other indoor games of which Mr. Parker person ally invented more than...
Henry A. Roemer, president of Continental Steel Corp. (Kokomo, Ind.), was elected president of Sharon (Pa.) Steel Hoop Co. Past-president Severn P. Ker becomes chairman...
...season now, yet one day last week saw a host of hunters march forth from Merrimack, N. H., with guns loaded, triggers oiled. Through woods and fields near the farm of Thomas H. Braden they prowled. Before long Police Chief Frank R. Flanders was seen taking aim and- ker-blam-down came the quarry: a full-grown (60-lb.) male baboon. The hunt continued. Toward nightfall Dr. Paul Denicola fired into a copse near an open field and another baboon breathed its last. That was the end of Merrimack's great May hunting day. The baboons, lately bought...
Sliding oval objects which looked like big stone bowls with the bowl part filled in and with a little handle poking up on top, sliding these objects down an alley marked on the ice of a rink in Winnipeg, Ker Dunlop and S. Mair of St. Paul, curlers, won the Black & Armstrong Cup, famed international curling trophy...
...Consul John Ker Davis, eleven U. S. marines and 24 refugees barely managed to gain Socony Hill, under a running fire from Chinese snipers. Marine Plumley alone was wounded, but was able to walk, continuing to return the Chinese fire. At Socony Hall, Mrs. Davis, the other women refugees and the children crowded into a spacious bathroom, lay down on the floor. The children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese...