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Driver Septus Palin, spry, brown, bandy-legged, 57, began training horses at 25 near Crawfordsville, Ind. where he grew up, now has an interest in an Indianapolis stable. He has been trainer and driver for Owner Baker, whose Greyhound was preceded by Pacers Winnipeg (1:57 1/4), Star Etawah (1...
Helen Wills went East for the first time in 1921, a shy sturdy-legged girl with pigtails, won the National Girls' Championship at Forest Hills. Coolidge had just become President, Jack Dempsey was Heavyweight Champion and Babe Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year...
Most of the 60-odd characters are a queer lot. Catherine's greatest friends were a retired courtesan, a worn-out sea captain, and the gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent...
Housepainter John Kane took 67 years to get around to sending a real painting to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Show in 1927. Today he is rated "one of the few great American painters of this age." Horny-handed, one-legged Irishman Kane never had an art lesson in his...
Pieter Vos was a sallow, bandy-legged little city boy, who hated his menial job and poor prospects, jumped at the chance to make a pile as a rubber planter. When the rubber company took him on and paid him a month's salary in advance Piet had big...