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Gifts. In Osceola, Neb., county fair officials offered a free permanent wave to the champion woman chicken-raiser, a free haircut to the man who bought the most bonds. Winners: curly-haired Addie Carter, bald Al Nicklaus...
Eimer H. Taylor, Frederick, Ill.; Richard N. Thomas, Omaha, Neb.; Loster H. Tobin, Linu; George W. Varn 2d, Jacksonville, Fla.; High G. Voorhies, Jr., San Diego, Calif.; Norman M. Wallack, Derchester; Harry H. Wdise, Jr., South Bend, Ind.; David B. Williams, Bronxville, N. Y.; and Richard Wincor, New York City...
Land is not the first man to bet on Andrew Jackson Higgins. Big, ruddy, Irish "A. J."-who would rather be shot than called Andy-has been betting on himself ever since the age of nine, when he owned seven lawn mowers in Columbus, Neb. and ran the town's lawn-mowing business. By the age of 22 he was running a sawmill in Mobile. The depression of 1907 cleaned him out. Since then, he has been cleaned out by every depression that came along. In 1908 he started over again with 15? and a mandolin (which he pawned...
HOMER L. KYLE Lincoln, Neb...
...track fans who crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week for the National A.A.U. championships saw Leslie MacMitchell (TIME, Dec. 1) lose his first mile in 20 starts. The man who outran him, bespectacled, 23-year-old Gilbert Dodds of Falls City, Neb., had never run a big-time mile before...