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Johnny Layton said he thought there was no good fortune at all in de Oro's victory. Thereupon the onetime carpenter from Sedalia, Mo., proceeded to lose to de Oro 50-10-46. For a time during the 66-game competition it looked as if the lead might pass to Willie Hoppe, who is not really old (46), or to young Jay Bozeman, married for the second time just before the tournament and sporting a slave bracelet on his left wrist. But by last week all but two of the twelve contestants had played eleven matches and lost three...
...After becoming the world-champion pool player, Layton did so. The diamond-shaped plates, now set in the rail of every standard billiard table, were developed from his system of studying angles. World's three-cushion billiard champion ten times, Layton's newspaper name is still "the Sedalia carpenter." In addition to carpentering, he has been a farmer, professional wrestler and baseball player, manager of a string of prizefighters, proprietor of a summer camp, trapshooting champion of Missouri, Wisconsin and Minnesota...
Ewing Virgil Neal was busily doing transient business in a magnificent Florentine suite on the Sherry-Netherland's 14th floor. His rise to wealth began, like that of Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon, on a farm 64 years ago at Sedalia, Mo. He still talks with a Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester...
...White House last week filled with preholiday social activities. As house guests the President and Mrs. Roosevelt had Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Mr. Jacques F. Danielson & wife (Fannie Hurst). After a large dinner the Sedalia Singers of Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N. C. performed at a musicale.* Next day Mrs. Roosevelt entertained Mrs. Hearst and Miss Hurst by taking them into one of the President's regular press conferences...
...Sedalia, Mo., in Mrs. C. L. Baker's specially-refrigerated parlor, lay the month-dead body of her husband, awaiting completion of a mausoleum. Explained Widow Baker: "I couldn't bear to think of having his body covered with dirt, so I just brought it home...