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...broadcasting car which cost $1,000 a week to operate. Behind the broadcasting car, before much time had passed, came sheriffs on motorcycles. Soon the bungalow was attached for debts. At every town runners quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots for them in empty stores. In Chicago there was no cash on hand. When it seemed sure that everything was over, one F. F. Gunn, Chicago sportsman, paid off the debts, took charge...
...Alvan L. Barach was chosen as consultant because he has developed the oxygen tent which has already saved many otherwise hopeless cases of pneumonia. The pneumonia patient generally suffocates to death. The lungs become congested, he cannot take in enough air to keep alive, he gasps, coughs, turns blue in the face, dies. Dr. Barach's oxygen tent surrounds the patient's head and chest with an atmosphere of 60% oxygen. He no longer fights for air, it is fed to him. This was the tent through which Bennett greeted Lindbergh; in which he lived from the moment...
Meanwhile on top of the Knob in a huge circus tent crowded with a thousand guests, steaming with the warm smell of barbecue, Southern style, Uncle Alf held court. The baying of the hounds grew fainter outside. Uncle Alf rambled on until dawn, delighting the merrymakers with reminiscences. Scores of uniformed Negroes bustled about, serving the immense banquet to which ten sheep, ten pigs, 500 pounds of beef, had contributed. All "the fixin's" were there...
...believe Pyle had $25,000. When Oklahoma City gave $5,000 to Pyle, Ralph Scott, onetime manager of Red Grange, attached it. The Chamber of Commerce then refused to give the citizens of Oklahoma City a free look at the plodders, made them run across lots to a circus tent. Admission to the tent was through a turnstyle. Inside the tent Red Grange presided. Said a wag, "If any more runners drop out Red will have to get in the race himself." Runner Mike Baze was hit on his leg by a car. Runner Andrew Payne was leading at Chandler...
...Hall, which will do very well for a convention hall, and the battle proper begins. There is no mystery, gentlemen, no hocus-pocus; every issue plainly before your eyes, every candidate offered for what he is worth. The college side-show serves to whet the appetite while the main tent is being prepared. But the pungency of the 1924 performance is lacking this year. Houston may watch a real struggle: New Lecture Hall is slated to observe a walk-over on the first ballot...