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...morning he found her, took her to the river bank, twisted her arm to make her admit he disgusted her. She began screaming shrilly in terror and in equal terror he began beating her over the face with a convenient club. In his flight he joyfully murdered an oldster who seemed to be watching...
...Aikens had to start out against the Old Oaks, junior champions in 1928, a team commanded by hard-riding Oldster Howard S. Borden with able young Michael Phipps at No. 1. They rode through to a 10-to-7 victory after trailing by two goals in the third chukker. Then they had to play the Greentrees. After four chukkers they were behind seven goals...
...Clark's Resolute, her oldtime rival as defender of America's cup. Charles Francis Adams Jr., able son of an able father, won. Score of the 100 races: Vanitie, 55; Resolute, 45. Last week's Vanitie-Resolute course: 41 miles from Kittery to Marblehead. Oldster Team. England last week chose four oldsters, one youngster for the null man Cup team which will play in the U. S. at Forest Hills, L. I., next month. The team: Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron, Mrs. P. H. Covefl, Mrs. M. H. Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss...
...although he is a septuagenarian, the Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another distinguished oldster, began making the 15-minute trip out to the new stadium to watch the players practice and then begin to play for the highest titles the tennis world holds...
Among the performers in the famed "Flying Circus" of the late Baron von Richthofen of Germany was a 22-year-oldster high in the Baron's esteem-Alfred Wolff, university graduate, engineer, early an ace. When the Baron was plunged to his death, many of his duties devolved upon Ace Wolff. Against French and English aces Wolff fought fierce battles. It happened that he had never to fight a U. S. flyer...