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...entrance fee of $2.00 is payable at the Harvard Athletic Association. All competitors will start at scratch. Any one who intends to play golf in the spring, including Freshmen, are advised to enter the tournament since one of its main objects is to uncover potential material for the teams. Men entering the tournament should appear at the Club by four o'clock either of the two afternoons. No previous notification of officials is necessary in order to enter the tournament...
...Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess of Thurn & Taxis...
...friends he sardonically described his paper as "the fireside companion." A benefactor of in- digent racing addicts, he once distributed $250 to a half-dozen impoverished acquaintances while descending eleven stories in an elevator. He carried thin gold-headed canes, wore white spats, checkered waistcoats, spoke of money as "scratch." Suffering from the effects of a sporting banquet, he received a massage the night before he died from his longtime Negro cook-chauffeur-valet, Chicken Fry Ben Jones...
Strangest of all, most of the tales were true. So memorable was Queen Marie that Negroes still go by thousands to a nameless tomb in New Orleans' St. Louis Cemetery No. 3, scratch crosses on the crumbling cement and bricks. Official records list her as having been buried in her 80's in another tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, back of the Southern Railway's Terminal Station, in the heart of the oldtime redlight district. Many a Negro, an occasional white, still believes that if he scratches a cross on the nameless tomb...
...called barometers of business do not register every day. Last week four of them, including several of the most important, made their mid-summer reports, caused businessmen 1) to smile. 2) to nod their heads sagely, 3; to raise their eyebrows in mild surprise, 4) to scratch their heads in serious thought...