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...famous prophet in an attempt to remove the element of chance from the next World Series. It will be remembered by followers of sport that Dr. Huey's reputation did not really become worldwide until the last World Series, when his remarkably accurate predictions finally won over the most stubborn doubters of his prowess. Investigation brought quick death, however, to the kidnapping story...
During almost the entire scrimmage, team B was on the offense, sending play ofter play at the stubborn second team, which furnished a strong defensive line. Kuehn, Cunningham, and Upton took part in the scrimmage as members of team B, while Record and Fullum were out of the practise due to injuries received the day before. In the signal practice at the close of the afternoon. White took his place as fullback on team A, while Schereschewsky and Crickard resumed their places in place of Greeley and Leonard. The practise this afternoon will be the last for this week...
...nice girl and keeps appointments with her between bank robberies. Few will accept as verity the huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room. But none of its unlikelihoods impair the plot. So finely realized in Good Intentions are handsome photography and acting and directing that the familiar fictions are almost good again. Best shot: a crook who has just come out of Sing Sing walking...
James Eads How was a stubborn idealist. He believed in the "actual, practical brotherhood of man." His family was rich. His grandfather was James Buchanan Eads, builder of the first bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis, builder of the Mississippi jetties just below New Orleans. His father was James Flintham How, vice president and general manager of the Wabash Railroad. Young How entered Meadville Theological School, Unitarian institution at Meadville, Pa. Fellow students termed him eccentric, "crazy," because he gave the poor his allowance, his possessions, everything but meagre necessities. He made his room a hermit-like cell...
...long stubborn adherence to a skimpy vegetable diet (a plate of pea soup was often his whole meal; was what made him faint in the Cincinnati station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow...