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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John" is the commonest American name there are undoubtedly more famous Americans named "John" than anything else. No doubt "Big Johns" also head the lists of bootleggers, stamp lickers, hash eaters, sword swallowers, garbage men and street sheiks. If your readers have nothing better to do I can start them out on a list of "Big Johns" which they can go on adding to until they are tired of such a ninnyhammer's trick. My list: John Thomas Scopes John J. Pershing John Pierpont Morgan John- Dempsey John Barrymore John H. Clarke John D. Rockefeller Sr. John D. Rockefeller...
...Chamber last week must have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier and the War Minister stood watching, a monoplane swooped down on them and crashed, killing M. Berteaux, wounding M. Monis, who later resigned the Premiership. "Mes amis," asked Premier...
...Charles Hoff's supreme effort-which did not count because Mr. Hoff is a professional. Bluebird. In a Bluebird on the Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Capt. Malcolm Campbell broke the world's automobile record for a kilometre and for a mile, from a flying start. His speed: 174.883 miles per hour for the kilometre, 174 for the mile...
...basketball contest with St. George's the Crimson first year quintet was forced to display its best. The game was an up-hill fight from the start and the Crimson chances for victory seemed nil until just before the final whistle, when the score stood...
Three Former Captains to Start...