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...Shaw comes from New Orleans where he was once a champion bicycle racer. Nearing 60, he has grey hair, a ruddy face, a diamond stickpin in his tie. He is the only bookmaker in the East, as Tom Kearney of St. Louis is the only one in the West, to make a winter book on the Kentucky Derby. He owns a stable of six or seven horses, races them in the name of his lawyer John J. Robinson. His headquarters on Broadway are listed as a real-estate office. He began making books in New York...
...contribution if you will then return the portrait, express collect, we will send you our thoughts respecting the picture as a whole. "Our friends think that if the lines of the coat were a little more clearly defined. . . ." At the bottom of the letter was a tracing of a stickpin with the note, "This is the exact size of Mr. Rockefeller's stick-pin- without diamond." Artist Matsakas profited from these criticisms and two weeks later sent the revised portrait to Florida. He carefully laid away the tie. Last week a Chicago newspaper reported that Matsakas "has called...
...sons, fearful lest their father's serious heart ailment be fatally aggravated by the shock of his capture, broadcast that Mr. Luer should be allowed to stand up if an attack came on, should be given no coffee, only mild cigars. "We cannot accept any ring, stickpin, or fingerprints," they warned. "You can take such things from a dead man. We must have something in father's handwriting." After five days old Mr. Luer was turned loose on a road near Collinsville. He had been kept, he said, in a dank, narrow concrete crypt in the basement...
...ridge at Brookville, surrounded by one of the few groves of real trees still alive on Long Island, he built himself a huge rambling house, with terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington." (In 1918 he suggested filling the Central Park Reservoir with coal. "New York has its Croton; why not a coal reserve...
...Year's Day 1895, the proprietor of a Manhattan saloon at Third Avenue and 130th Street greased his hair, breathed on his diamond stickpin and departed to pay his New Year calls, leaving the bar in charge of a 17-year-old Russian boy who was working nights in order to study art by daylight. It was a rough night, and to the Harlem barflies the boy looked easy. Shouting, swearing they demanded free drinks. The young bartender set up one on the house. That only made things worse. The boy, thoroughly frightened, snatched a revolver from the till...