Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only the dazzling desert of the snow. But last week, Leonard Seppalla was not driving Scotty to a fever-stricken town near the Bering Strait with a cargo of serum strapped to his skidding sled. He was driving a team through the Adirondack woods, near Lake Placid, in the second Annual Lake Placid Sled Dog Derby, which he won with a total elapsed time of two hours and 32 minutes for the two 15-mile laps of the run. Later the most famous of dog team drivers banqueted in the Lake Placid Club with his ten less successful competitors...
Among them was Walter Channing of Boston, Chairman of the Racing Committee of the New England Sled Dog Club, who beat Seppalla's time on the second day's run but lost to him on the average of the two days' time, because his harness had broken on the first lap. Hiram Mason was third. He was driving for the Taylor-Mason kennels at Tamworth, N. H., of which the other member is Mosely Taylor, President of the New England Sled Dog Club, an amateur who since 1921 has helped finance races. Fourth...
Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third...
...Memphis, Tenn., last week, went 1,500 dyers and cleaners, delegates to the twenty-second annual convention of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the U. S. & Canada. To them spoke Frank A. Weller, Sharon. Pa., president of the association. Irate, President Weller talked chiefly of racketeers, recommended that the association go on record as being "unalterably opposed" to racketeering (see Letters), and refuse association membership to any dyer and cleaner known to have racketeering connections. Dyers and cleaners feel that unjust, unfavorable comment on racketeers has gravely injured the dyeing and cleaning industry...
Maribel Vinson, National Champion Woman Skater, who is a student at Radcliffe, will be the Prima Ballerina of the evening. Miss Vinson placed second in the world championship competition last year. Her corps de Ballet will be composed of Boston debutantes and sub-debutantes, who are reported to cut notable figures...