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John Garner read the statement, chuckled, said "No comment." Newshawks began checking, soon learned that "Cactus Jack" quit high-stake poker about 1920, has since played seldom and then for "buttons."* All top-rank correspondents know John Garner's drinking habits. He likes bonded rye, will occasionally go for...
The situation is not new, but each time it happens it is unforgettable to passengers. Sometimes they sit tight. Sometimes they get hysterical. The Frobisher's passengers provided a gay variation. Yankee John Anthony Celler, a tourist from New Haven, Conn., stood up. "Anybody got a flask or something...
Billionaire Rockefeller retained at his death only $26,410,837, almost entirely in easily convertible corporate and Government securities, including only one sentimental share of Standard Oil Company of California and just about enough U. S. Treasury notes to pay his last taxes: $4,385,000 to New York State...
The Bohemian garret-&-starvation conception of a great artist does not apply to Sibelius. Since 1897 he has enjoyed a modest pension from the Finnish state, which has provided him with leisure to compose. At his house at Jarvenpaa he lives the secluded life of a highly respectable country gentleman...
Electrical communications have made carriers, with freak exceptions, obsolete. The lively sport of live-pigeon shooting is now generally illegal. The decline of the pigeon's utility has stimulated pigeon breeding as a sport. Leaving out pigeon racers, who breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers...