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...they call the "Fourth City" know that Rev. Merton Stacher ("Mert") Rice of mammoth Metropolitan Methodist Church has twice declined a bishopric. Likewise nationally known in their respective churches are Presbyterian Joseph Anderson Vance, Quaker Morton C. Pearson, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. Congregationalists Charles Haven Myers and Warren Wheeler Pickett, Disciple of Christ Edgar De Witt Jones...
...Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like riding '"outlaw" horses and roping cattle, were tests of cowboys' ability to perform their chores. Spectacular frills arrived later. A Negro cowboy named Bill Pickett introduced steer-wrestling some 25 years ago, dared his confrères to copy it. In addition to freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week's world series rodeo included also a mounted basketball game, in which a team of cowboys challenged all-comers; performances by stunt horses...
...found using firearms in these grounds will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor of the law." He finally discovered his man's corps in the centre of the line, and was just being sent to the rear as a civilian when a Confederate bombardment blocked the way. When Pickett's charge came whooping over the wheatfields and up to the stone wall on Cemetery Hill Bale forgot he was a pacifist. Though history is silent on the point, Author Kantor gives his hero the credit of killing General Armistead. Bale found his man, not dead but badly wounded...
...yard breaststroke--Won by Charles N. Breed '36; second Stricker (Y); third, Pickett (Y). Time...
...having their hands kissed by Latin Ambassadors. The city's social news is reported in the manner of a court gazette. The President, members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Senate, sometimes of the House of Representatives, get top-column position. The meticulous Star's Mrs. Sally Pickett goes the whole hog, prints an entire column of names of guests (down to the assistant solicitor of the Department of Labor) at a tea given by the Minister of the Dominican Republic. The Post's society editor is the most authoritative. She is blonde Evelyn Peyton Gordon, daughter...