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Boats pushed out into the dungeon fog, blew horns, waited in vain for Skipper Paul's reply. From Monhegan Island and all Casco Bay the searchers sent the same answer: no trace. A throng of weeping kinfolk, scared children gathered at Harpswell wharf. Hours later, a message came from Westpoint that the Don had put in there at 11 a.m. to buy lobsters, then left for Monhegan...
...seven years of professional boxing, Louis has earned close to $2,000,000 in purses (split 50-50 with his managers, after deducting training expenses). He owns $400,000 worth of real estate in Detroit and Chicago, has a $250,000 annuity, and has set up his kinfolk in various business enterprises. When he finally quits the ring, the Champ will retire to his 800-acre dude farm outside Detroit - "a place for my people"-which he hopes to turn into a profitable resort...
...baby. Later to keep him in school in Chicago, she sends him her wages, sells her silver and furniture. The only time she sees him again is when he comes back to collect the money from the last of her land. At 35, Famie looks like an old woman; kinfolk have disowned her for selling her land; her only friend is a big, serious-minded, coal-black field hand...
...Because of the intense feeling against the General," announced 6 ft. 5 in. Sheriff Evan Harrod of Henry County, "and the murmuring that some of Mrs. Taylor's kinfolk are preparing for any emergency, we are going to be ready to repel any attempt against the General's life...
...licking Southerners at business for a hundred years, but that the South still turned out good doctors, good officers, good lawyers, in such abundance that they could not make a living at home. Dividing his boyhood between Delaware and Virginia, Charles found himself at ease with his easygoing, impractical kinfolk in the South, wary but impressed in the circles of his Northern companions. He fell in love with a series of amiable Virginia belles, formed a deeper friendship with a tall, unaffected girl named Terry Mullikan, loafed at the University of Virginia until he was suspended, shipped on a freighter...