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Wins by Charlie Elliott, Mike Wart Ted Rose, Elliott Hawkins, and Sid Singer gave the varsity "B" squash team a 5 to 6 league victory over the Business School club at the University Courts yesterday...
...publicity he could (Bleriot's little plane was on display in the store the day after it flew the Channel), advertised as no London merchant had ever advertised before. Selfridge's offered customers "101 unusual services," including expert umbrella rolling, cricket bat oiling, pipe cleaning, wig-making, wart removing. The store's "Great Luncheon Rooms" offered Southern U.S. cooking, such as "Fried Chicken, Maryland Cream Chicken, Corn...
...which plagued him were cancerous. He went back to Massachusetts, eked out an existence on an Army disability pension. Over the years he submitted to 50 or more operations. Every few weeks, when he saw a fellow Harvard alumnus, Surgeon Ernest M. Daland, he would point to a bleeding wart and say: "That one's degenerating a little . . . Won't stop bleeding. Give me a little Novocain and take it off." The wound would be grafted with skin from Dr. Brown's belly or leg, which soon began to look like patchwork quilts...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...
Otto von Bismarck, and Lincoln minus his wart...