Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage ended in tragedy. One night when he was on the Mexican border -on a tour of duty during which he later pursued "Pancho" Villa-his house in San Francisco's Presidio caught fire. His son Warren was saved, but his wife and three daughters were burned to death. His severity and ramrod correctness simply seemed to increase...
During the first half of his 61 years, Charles Allen Ward worked the waterfronts of China, mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. But his career as a businessman did not really begin until he had served time in Leavenworth on a narcotics charge. Allen's cellmate (income-tax evasion) was Herbert Huse Bigelow, head of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow (calendars, other advertising novelties). Bigelow thought Ward was "made of good clay," asked him what job he wanted with the company when he got out of stir. "Your job, H.H.," said Ward. Replied...
Said one old tennis star: "I've been watching these matches, and I'm convinced that Riggs can win any match he damn pleases." Pancho Segura, who once swore that Big Jake could trample over any tennis player, admits that he has changed his mind: "Until now I never saw Riggs play his best . . . Riggs is a great arteesian." But Australia's Dinny Pails, the fourth member of the touring tennists, thinks that Kramer will come...
...When Pancho Villa's raiders crossed the border in 1916, the big house prepared for a siege. The Widow King called in all hands one anxious night, gave them guns and posted them at strategic spots. Then she calmly went to bed. The raiders did not come; instead, they besieged the Norias division ranch house to the south. There eight bandits and one King rancher were killed. When other bandits kidnaped a ranch resident the vaqueros nabbed them by following the shells which the peanut-loving bandits had dropped...
...Kramer, U.S. Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...