Word: tattoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nova Scotia, Jim Williams was taken as a baby to Detroit, where he grew up, spent one year half-heartedly studying art at Mount Union College. At 15, big and husky as a man, he quit school to roam the Southwest as ranch hand, camp cook, mule skinner, tattoo artist. He was a crack rider with the 15th Cavalry at Fort Sill, Okla. Mustered out, he married, smashed baggage at Chicago's old Northwestern railroad station, got a broken nose as a professional prize fighter, finally settled down as a machinist's assistant in the shops of Alliance...
...stuck to Maki's heels, moving forward when Maki (coached by Tutor Nurmi, standing stop watch in hand in the infield) moved forward. For 31 laps the Notre Damer and the Finn were so close together that the Miraculous Medal on Rice's chest practically beat a tattoo on Maki's back...