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Cook, too, had his troubles. In December, 1909, the Explorers' Club expelled him because it disbelieved his claim to have climbed Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mount Mc-Kinley, highest peak in North America, in 1906. He got mixed up in some oil stock frauds, served five years in prison. His friends said he was an innocent figurehead who had been deceived by the embezzlers. Three years ago he sued the Encyclopaedia Britannica, two publishers and a writer for "discrediting" his claim to the discovery of the North Pole. To date he has collected nothing...
...Campbell unlocked the door, lit a fire in the big Waterbury stove in the corner. Soon, trudging up the road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards, two Hotzes, Lorraine Stockman, Frances Mc-Namer, Bertilla Loventinsky and Doris Augustine. Total: 13 girls five boys. Ages: 4 to 14. Grades: primer (kindergarten) to seventh...
This year at Forest Hills, with Don Budge a pro, the seeded list for the national lawn tennis singles had mostly sophomores instead of Titans-listless Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker; Joe Hunt, Jack Kramer, Don Mc-Neill, Gil Hunt, Elwood Cooke. The foreign seedings might as well have stopped with Australians Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist...
...upper brackets Riggs had a cinch. He chopped off Australian Journalist Harry Hopman after Harry had eliminated troublesome Bitsy Grant. He waded through Joe Hunt, after Joe had spent two days (the match was interrupted by darkness) and five endless sets whittling down French Champion Don Mc-Neill...
...till the performers are ready with standbys like Daisy Bell, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl. The working-girl songs, and also such alley classics as She Is More to Be Pitied than Censured, My Mother Was a Lady, Throw Him Down Mc-Closkey, etc., are brayed with proper bathos by a chanteuse named Beatrice Kay, who can take off anybody from Eva Tanguay to Anna Held...