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While recuperating from his last year's stint of illness, Harlow did some scouting work for Brown last season...
...kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays him a dirty trick. "She smashed me koyte!" mourns Herbert. Back at Mom's he vengefully refuses to pay his wife's allotment, prefers instead to do an occasional stint in jail...
Almost from the time that Russian-born Schmil Kogan (alias Cohen, alias Carr, alias Lewis) arrived in Canada in 1924, the commission found, he was a professional Communist. After a stint on the prairies as a laborer, he showed up in Montreal as an organizer for the Young Communist League. Within two years he joined the Communist Party (outlawed by an Ontario court in 1931 and by the Dominion government in 1940, reborn in 1943 as the Labor Progressive Party...
Henning joined the Trib in 1899, a cub from Chicago's City News Bureau. After a stint at general assignments and politics, he went to Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...
...half dozen students came in tuxedoes one morning at 1 a.m. and said they were invited to a 'private' opening; I didn't let them in," Shean revealed as he ended his final stint last night. "The only outsider that's gotten past me during construction was a small gray kitten, but I've had some pretty close calls...