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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROBERT L. INGOLD Yeadon, Pa...
Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande...
...bricklayer, he was clerking in a Philadelphia grocery store and his name was then George Black. Then he noticed that actors seemed to sleep late mornings. He began copying every gesture of a Keith headline act about a political boob, got a chance to give his imitation at Minersville, Pa...
...National Football League (so named in 1922) started in 1920 like a free-for-all. By 1925 there were 20 teams from such places as Pottsville, Pa. and Hammond, Ind. Then the Bears signed up Red Grange and 72,000 watched him beat the New York Giants. In the next few years, rules were loosened to encourage laterals, field goals and higher scores. A League franchise was worth $50 in 1920; four years ago the Detroit Lions changed hands for about...
...Strenuous Life. In Ligonier, Pa., a pig bit a rope dangling from a barn, tugged, swung a scaffold out from under Painter John Graham. He pitched forward, grabbed a knothole, dropped his brush on the pig, which let go. This let the scaffold swing back under Graham, who settled aboard and relaxed...