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...hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals to two Arab chiefs for aid, and finds that one of them is his long-lost brother in disguise. Moreover, the two of them are Geste's Buddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stout fella | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...field as soggy as a silo floor the team of the University of Nebraska, popularly known as the Cornhuskers, made ducks of Drake, 21 to 0. Iowa, with a plunging backfield, beat Colorado Teachers' College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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