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...lifting her forward, too. The eleven minutes she gained on that leg gave her a ten minute lead that won the race and the series for her: 2-0. And at the Gloucester City Hall, Mayor John Parker gave to the men of Thebaud the new cup Sir Thomas Lipton had put up for the series...
...Manhattan last week, dollars ($3,500 by Sept. 29) were pouring into the Mayor's office from people who had taken seriously Will Rogers' suggestion that the U. S. raise popular subscription to present a "sympathy trophy" to Sir Thomas Lipton. Mayor and committee announced that it would be the finest trophy the jewellers of the city could provide...
...Said Lipton, about to sail for home on the Leviathan...
...luck, from the point of view demanded by high achievement. For he is not distracted from his aim by blonde winks and brunette giggles. . . . No Elks' picnic ever reaches Par nassus. The only man who has ever achieved something through the aid of tea parties is Sir Thomas Lipton." Such high-sounding words as Idealism and Service have little to do with Achieve ment, says Pitkin. "A man by the name of William Randolph Hearst built up the largest and most profitable newspaper and magazine business in America. By Ideal ism? By Service? A citizen known as Doheny has built...
...Erin, Sir Thomas Lipton stepped away from his guests and the reporters on board gathered round him at the rail. All day they had been asking him if he would challenge again and he had refused to answer. Now he felt the time had come to speak. He looked tired and had abandoned his familiar pose of gayety...