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...teach them Gluckes and Rolls, using running water to teach them the elegant Deep Bubbling Water Tour. Modern breeders lef young birds learn by listening to older champions. Some trainers have tried phonograph records, but not successfully. The birds learn and include in their song the needle's scratch and crack...
Married. Stan Laurel, 43, hair-scratch-ing, empty-headed film funnyman, partner of fat Oliver Hardy; to Vera Ivanova Shuvalova, 28, a Russian singer; day after his divorce; in Yuma, Ariz...
...next afternoon, under a broiling Mississippi sun with the temperature at 107, in the forty-fourth round of a prizefight John L. began to vomit. 'Will you draw the fight?' asked his opponent, Jake Kilrain, as they came up to scratch. 'No, you son of a bitch,' said Sullivan, heaving fluidly in the general direction of Jake. 'Stand up and fight!' Jake stood up, and stepped on John's foot with his ⅛-inch spikes, and Sullivan sent him sprawling with a chopping, sledgehammer blow on the jugular vein. John L. went...
...financially it was not scorned even by Drexel & Co. (branch of J. P. Morgan). During the War, however, Edward B. Smith & Co. lost ground, and the founder's son Albert and a group of young partners headed by John W. Cutler had to start almost from scratch. As in C. D. Barney, the Manhattan office became the head office but, instead of concentrating on the brokerage business, E. B. Smith set out to rebuild its underwriting business. It got off on the right foot by floating the first public offering of International Telephone & Telegraph common stocks...
...miracles. The dance hall, which he hoped to convert into a shrine, changes its name to The Miracle Casino, does business by the boat load. On Christmas Eve Malachy kneels among the Casino's drunken customers and performs a second wonder which leaves things pretty much at scratch...