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...right for $64. Now for $128. The land agent of the Earl of Erne in County Mayo in 1880 was so tyrannical that the people banded together and refused to have any dealings with him. What word comes from this...
Early Life: Born in Philadelphia, Dec. 20, 1906. Father (an oil-refinery worker) and mother came from County Mayo, Ireland. Graduated from West Philadelphia's Catholic High School for Boys, studied accounting at University of Pennsylvania's night school...
...unfortunate that in your July 16 discussion of regional ileitis and the President's outlook after his operation you did not mention the extremely important factor of age. My own recent book on regional enteritis (ileitis) cited, with approval, [Dr. Ward] Van Patter's figures from the Mayo Clinic to the effect that the rate of recurrence is less in patients 51 years of age and older...
Mild-mannered Manager Mayo Smith agrees. "If we had another like Roberts," says Smith, "it would make a tremendous difference. I agree with Connie Mack that pitching is 70% of the game. If you have it, you're always in the game. Even if you haven't the power hitting, as we haven't, you can work things like the sacrifice, the stolen base...
Yale, expected to sweep the broad jump, took only first, as the varsity's Art Mayo placed second, and Warren Plath third...