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Full House. In Hayward, Calif., Harold Sexton was arrested for overcrowding his taxi. His payload: 18 passengers...
...crowded Hudson River, bespectacled Vice Admiral Frederick Sherman interrupted his breakfast to observe: "Ships of the greatest fleet in the world have dropped anchor in the greatest city in the world." Thousands from the city clambered aboard his ship. Aboard the destroyer Foote, six-month-old Timothy Sexton came face to face for the first time in his life with his seaman father, home from the Pacific. On a New Orleans dockside R. H. Bryant and his wife stood and looked at the spot on the quarter-deck of the battleship Mississippi where their son Jim had died. They wept...
Hirsch, alias The Professor. Even Tom Ryan, the cherub-faced sexton, had another name-George Lanoway. He had been arrested 19 times, had gone to Sing Sing for a five-year stretch...
Cokes and Ice Cream. The sexton, Tom Ryan, had a good name in the neighborhood. He had a cherubic, middle-aged face-"like a bottle baby," said Mrs. Mary McLoughlin down the street. And if the Mission showed little interest in the souls of bums, Father Norman was a friend to the neighbors. He gave the kids cokes and ice cream, and took them for rides in his big black automobile. At Christmas he invited 60 of them to dinner, gave them firemen's helmets and cowboy hats. If anybody needed coal, money or clothes for their children, jovial...
Power of Suggestion: In Arkansas City, Kans., City Clerk James Clough lay ill in bed, was visited by a friend, the sexton of the Riverview Cemetery, who was soon followed by the pastor of the Central Christian Church. When another friend, who was also an undertaker, dropped in to cheer him, Clough got up, rushed back to work...