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Divorced. Wanda Hendrix, 30, sometime movie starlet (Miss Tatlock's Millions, Prince of Foxes); by James Langford Stack Jr., 42, rich Nevada sport; after four years of marriage; in Reno...
Mind Cure. In Atlanta, taking a tolerant view of the bigamy charge against Jackson L. Langford, 96, the solicitor general said that he probably got mixed up through "just being absent-minded...
...this excellent new biography Author Langford, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas, traces Porter's roller-coaster life and attempts to explain the contradictions of his personality. He was born in Greensboro, N.C., a year after the Civil War began, the son of a country doctor who neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried...
Just Point Me Straight. That is how Sam Langford got mixed up with boxing; he lived with it all the rest of his life. When he began to eat regularly, Sam put on weight. Soon he was strong enough to ask Woodman to get him a fight. By the next winter, he was good enough to whip Lightweight Champion Joe Gans (who kept the title because Sam had weighed in 8 oz. over the limit). By the time he was 18, "the Boston Tar Baby" was so good that he could beat almost anyone who would give him a bout...
...every one was a pleasure." When he died in a Cambridge nursing home last week (by then, Sam figured he was 76), the Tar Baby's pockets were as empty as ever, and his long record was almost empty of titles. But men who had seen Sam Langford fight still ranked him right up with the best...