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...Redskins' scintillants, Cliff Battles, ace ballcarrier of the league and star of the Brooklyn game; Erny Pinckert, former So. California captain and halfback; Pug Rentner of Northwestern; Ted Wright of Texas Teachers, who led the nation in scoring two years ago; Turk Edwards, All-Professional tackle; Hank McPhail, 230-pound fullback from Army, and Big Ben Boswell, 245-pound tackle from Texas Christian, will make their first appearance of the year on the Fenway sward...
...sextet of clever forward passers any one of whom appears capable of filling the bill to perfection. Five of these lossers hall from little known institutions but they have revealed already that they will add greater strength to the celebrated Boston offense. The sixth passer is the brilliant Pug Reniner of Northwestern one of the most widely known of modern football players and a great all-round stay who possesses-all the physical and mental qualities needed to scintillate in professional football...
...Columns under the guidance of walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky turned their attention last week to Russia's children. A 13-year-old girl known as Alia Kanshin marched into the hall at the head of 13 Siberian moppets under a big red banner proclaiming themselves "THE CIRCLE OF THE PUG-NOSED." The Circle had just completed a cooperative book on child life in Siberia. They demanded more and better books for Soviet children, books about "the struggles and sufferings of Young Pioneers living abroad...
...John Dillinger of the newspictures. His sandy hair had been dyed black. He had grown a mustache. His eyebrows were plucked, his pug nose straightened, his face "lifted." But these disguises did not fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through...
They came with their shillelaghs-florid-faced Thomas Francis McMahon swinging the threat of a cotton textile strike and pug-nosed Michael Francis Tighe brandishing what looked dangerously like a steel strike. If either or both landed a good stiff wallop with their clubs. General Johnson's job-making program with NRA would be sent sprawling in the dust of more labor troubles...