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Once when Gilbert Stroud, aged 7, was fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker...
...Proud Stroud...
...speed, with an enormous roar, was seen last week a hairy and runtlike Negro. On reaching the bottom, 48 minutes after he had left the top, the Negro said that he had broken the record for coming down Pike's Peak and that his name was Dolphus Stroud...
Boston Lacrosse Club.--g., Lincoln; p., Bordon; c.p., Stroud; 1d., Marston; 2d., Spiegelberger; 3d., Hall; c., Alexander; 3a., Swanson; 2a., Nightingale; 1a., Thibolt; o.h., Patten: l.h., Abbe...
...Mahan '16, star fullback and captain of last fall's championship eleven, is to coach the back-field candidates next season at the University of California under head coach Andrew Smith, a former Pennsylvania player. Although no contract has been signed, Graduate Manager Stroud secured Mahan's consent to coach on Saturday afternoon, and a more definite understanding will be reached after the close of the baseball season in June. Mahan will report at Berkeley by September...