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...John Gottlieb Wendel. He it was who dominated his six sisters, holding all the titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round sailor hats popular in the 1870's. Twice only did he meet rebellion. When Georgiana ran away at the age of 50 and registered at the Park Avenue Hotel, Brother John at once had her committed to the psychopathic ward at Bellevue and later pronounced insane by a sheriff's jury...
...four-year-old son of Antwerp's port administrator came to the rescue, silenced the weeping Princess by presenting her with a large pink-cheeked sailor doll with S.S. Princess Josephine Charlotte in gold letters on his hatband...
After two years of talk, delay, and a series of bouts that eliminated such contenders as Johnny Risko (tough Cleveland baker boy), Jack Delaney (gay Canadian), Tommy Loughran (a light heavyweight champion grown fat) and Phil Scott (English sailor famed for claiming fouls), a match was arranged to decide the heavyweight championship of the world. Jack Sharkey, garrulous descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to Binghamton, N. Y., onetime U. S. sailor, climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, wearing a U. S. flag over his shoulders. He was roundly booed, bit his glove in irritation. From the opposite corner...
...history: roustabout on Lisbon docks, sailor, medaled hero. Once he saved eight persons in a fire at sea, was scarred himself. As a ring fighter he is inexperienced. Bertys Perry, his French-American manager, was obliged to teach him not to slug, how to uppercut. Last week he was preparing to sail for the U. S. He wants a Labor Day bout with that Italian Brobdingnagian, Primo Camera (height 6 ft. 6 1/2 in.; weight...
...only too easy to picture the effect of Dartmouth's attempt to cool off. When New Haven tailors found out they could sell more cloth if they cut their customer's trousers like a sailor's every office boy in New York followed suit. At Dartmouth the college newspaper thought it necessary to urge football men to set the precedent for shorts in order that the more timid would follow. This counsel was unnecessary, the habit will doubtless spread across the country over night. Boys in the big city to the south who have been running around all winter without...