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Died. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, 71, multimillionaire president of Ruppert Brewing Co., since 1915 owner of the world champion New York Yankees; after long illness; in Manhattan (see...
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...possible to get-in Oxford, Miss., a county seat of 2,890 people, 62 miles southeast of Memphis. Historically speaking, nothing much has happened to Oxford since the Yankees burned it 75 years ago. It has a courthouse square, which Mississippi-born Artist John McCrady painted in Town Square (see cut). It has its Confederate monument on which a soldier stands stonily at ease. It has its old families and old legends, its tireless political disputes, its pleasant wooden dwellings, nice lawns, and some of the softest Southern accents in the South. It has new pavements and filling stations painted...
When he tries to land at Baton Rouge, soldiers guarding the levee see his convict uniform, open fire. Out in the current again, the boat whirls downstream. Miles from nowhere, on an old Indian mound crowded with snakes, the baby is born. After six days the convict gets so he thinks, "It ain't nothing but another moccasin," when he steps on a snake...
...retired soon afterwards. He lived on until his death at the age of 89, leading an essentially quiet life, dividing his time, according to the four seasons of the year, between Pittsfield. Boston, Washington, and an annual trip abroad, together with occasional journeys to see the Yale teams perform...