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When Jay Gould precipitated the famed "Black Friday" of 1869, Helen Gould was a small tot of a year and a half. It was not until 1913 that she married Railman Finley Johnson Shepard. In the 45 years of her spinsterhood?she was plain, plump, not much concerned with "Society"?she dedicated herself to good works while her brothers and sister went out in the world. She scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still...
California-born was the fourth member, their coach and leader, donor of the Wightman cup, patriarch of U. S. tennis for women. As Helen Hotchkiss she first won the U. S. championship in 1909 before Betty Nuthall and Helen Jacobs were born and when Helen Wills was a tot. She kept the title until 1912 and then, though "they never come back," rewon it in 1919. Her score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years ago. The next year her husband, George W. Wightman, an able player himself...
...jayvee race brought the only Harvard victory, and proved small consolation at that, for Cornell's No. 6 oar snapped at the button over half a mile from the finish. The Ithacans continued pounding away with an heroic beat and clung closely tot he heavy Harvard crew whose shell was noticeably lower in the waves than either, Tech or Cornell. In the final sprint Cornell could not keep up but the prow of the Tech boat riding high and clear, shot forward past amidships of the sinking Crimson shell and nearly snatched the victory from the Harvard eight...
Some 3,000,000 persons annually contribute $1,000,000 each year to these mission funds. Many a widow's mite, many a tot's tithe swells the total. Part of Treasurer Carnes's job was to lend money to needy wayside churches, and Treasurer Carnes thereby made contacts with wayside bankers, whom he won as he had won the board. His word alone was good at many a Southern bank, and often he borrowed $15,000, $10,000 and like sums "for the board...
...Hottentots are so called, as everyone knows, because of the incessant recurrence in their language of the syllables hot and tot...