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Colorado Springs' No. 1 philanthropist and art-lover is Mrs. Fred Morgan Pike Taylor, a broker's widow, a St. Louis sack-&-bag man's daughter, who gave the Fine Arts Center $600,000 for a building, enough to endow it with $100,000 a year. Designed by Architect John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, it is massive, severely functional...
...speech and no evening clothes, Smith Wildman Brookhart went to the U. S. Senate as a bull-shouldered, thick-skinned representative of Iowa. Both reports proved correct. His speech was an impassioned attack on the Interests, the Railroads, the Wets. His dress at swank Washington parties was a plain sack suit. His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed two brothers, two sons and one daughter...
Half-sympathetic toward the Spanish peasant's belief that Jesuits and Rightist politicians are to blame for peasant poverty, squat, sack-faced Republican Premier Manuel Azaña last week moved to end the violence. He called in Socialist Leader Francisco Largo Caballero, roared at him to call off his mobs, was met with evasions. He issued a decree re-seizing for distribution to the peasants lands which Spain's Left Government had seized in 1932 and which its Right Government had returned to the grandees...
Black Bart was the name assumed by Charles E. Boles. Clad in a linen duster, with a flour sack over his head, he held up 28 stages, never shot anyone. At each holdup, he would leave a suitable stanza of not badly turned verse. Once he signed himself "The PO8" Before his final capture, he reached a reward value of $18,000 "dead or alive." When he got out of jail, Wells Fargo paid him $125 a month not to rob them any more...
About the keystone sack where Mitch has no returning regulars, Tom Bilodeau and Dave Shean yesterday seemed to have an edge going after ground balls hit at them by the Coach...