Word: sportsman
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...Last week President Hoover, a true sportsman, declined an offer from Virginia to legalize fishing-out-of-season...
William Bateman Leeds Jr., sportsman, gave his yacht Sinco (onetime boat of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair) to dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen of New York City for official use, probably for the harbor reception of visiting notables...
...sportsman, he plays anagrams with all-comers at any time, cribbage and bridge occasionally. He drives a Peerless and a Dodge, fiddles with his radio for distant stations, enjoys cinema. He lives in an apartment at No. 2800 Ontario Road in Washington, entertains the required amount for a Congressman, no more. His married son is his House secretary. His hobby: Dickinson genealogy...
Elected. James R. Page, popular California sportsman and sports patron; to be president of the Bank of California...
...point, around which not so great a welter of discussion has been raised, is the longevity of college athletes, to which the report adds valuable information. Their findings that the sportsman will live no longer than his non-competing classmate and not as long as the Phi-Beta Kappa bear out to a large degree the statements of the I. C. A. A. A. A. on the subject, which were published last year. The statistics themselves, however, must naturally have been compiled from the generations before the turn of the century, and cannot reflect the increased medical supervision, intelligent coaching...