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...Middlesex Hospital's official blood-supply man. Is it an old dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed? A young slip of a girl, anaemic, wan, ghosty-eyed? Frederick George Lee bares his flesh, lets his stout heart pump good red blood into the sufferer's frame and for his office receives a goodly fee. In the past three years he has done that 24 times...
Henry Ford's interest in aeronautics became less academic and more commercial last week when he bought out all the stockholders of the Stout Metal Airplane...
...Stout Company makes the all-metal (duraluminum) monoplanes which the Fords have been trying out experimentally as commercial freight carriers for their own business. The Stout plant was reported to have changed hands for about $1,000,000. William B. Stout, founder of the Company, will remain as engineer of the "Stout Airplane Division of the Ford Motor...
...Detroit, put up a cup for the best individual player. Last week, on the flat Salisbury course that sprawls over some moors near Garden City, L. I., began the fourth annual Public Links Tournament. When the diggers, the hookers and the slicers had been cleared away, two stout golfers stood forth to do battle in the finals : stubby William Serrick of Manhattan, who uses a jigger for his long putts; Raymond McAuliffe-tall, redheaded, lately a caddy on the links at Buffalo, who stares fiercely at his little ball between puffs of a long black cigar...
...eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies she recovered; finished fourth after 14 hr. 37 min. of swimming, cheered more loudly by huge waiting crowds than the winner, Joseph Ledriant, French sailor, who finished two hours before...