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Mordecai ("Three-fingered") Brown, famed Chicago Cub pitcher of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance days, who pitched against "Christy" Mathewson 24 times and beat him 13, won the Republican nomination for state representative in Terre Haute...
...Tinker Field, Okla...
Many a senior class voted him its most inspiring professor. When he was upset in 1920 by Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, the Phelps heyday at Yale was passing. By then Billy Phelps's literary notions were not even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...
With his motherly auburn-haired wife, three daughters and son, the new President lives in a somber grey apartment house, entertains freely, jokes continually, sneaks candy whenever he can get it, wishes there were more time to tinker with mechanical gadgets...
Whalebone tough as he is, Henry Ford had never expected (until recently) to outlive his only son. All his life Edsel was the pupil, his father the teacher, empire management the subject. As a baby, Edsel watched his father tinker with his first horseless carriage, rode proudly on a special little seat when it first sputtered along Detroit's dusty Bagley Avenue...