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Driving back to Harvard after spring vacation in a blinding sleet storm, Col. Theodore Roosevelt's two eldest sons, Theodore III and Cornelius, did not see a truck stalled by the roadside at Shrewsbury, Mass. With Theodore driving the family station wagon, they crashed into the truck, demolished their car, crawled out with nothing worse than cuts, bruises and a broken right arm for Cornelius...
...next venture was establishing a summer school and art colony at Stone City in an impressively colonnaded mansion, relic of the days when Stone City's abandoned limestone quarries brought the town brief prosperity. Stone City's art school quickly became known as the Ice-Wagon Art Colony. So many pupils enrolled for the course that every bedroom in the village was taken. Inventive pupils found a stable of 14 abandoned ice wagons, dragged them to a meadow, fitted them up as gypsy caravans, painted the sides with gaudy murals. From miles around the farmers went to gape...
...Lynbrook, N. Y., John W. Martin, driving a wagon laden with half a ton of apple, custard and lemon meringue pies, collided with an automobile, was extricated by a boys' baseball team who ate their...
Chocolate Earnings. He abhors signing his name, writes no personal checks, no letters. He never gives an interview. lives in two rooms over a country club. At 19 he cooked caramels in an alley, peddled them around in Philadelphia, was ruined when a street car smashed his wagon. At 46 he built a $1,000,000 chocolate factory in a Pennsylvania cornfield. As there was no town for miles around, he built one. Today every child knows the name of ruddy, thickset Milton Snavely Hershey of Hershey Chocolate Corp. who, at 77, still walks through his 50 acres of factory...
Lick-lip melodrama from the word go. Paprika unrolls a rapid narrative of gypsy love, fistfights, Budapest night life, drunken officers, and a plethora of bedroom scenes. Paprika was the platinum-blonde bastard of a Hungarian nobleman and a gypsy queen. She grew up in the same wagon with Rogi, a young fiddler who loved her well. Paprika loved him too. but she was a wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept...