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David R. Matlack, Edward J. Michon, Ernest A. Mitchell, Frank D. Padgett, William C. Palson, Jr., Frank W. Reeb, Edward W. Shaw, William F. Snyder, Robert M. Solow, Joseph S. Spenser, Thomas M. Stanton, Richard N. Swift, Jack L. Torgan, Charles R. Weaver, Stephen J. Welsh, Rush E. Welter, and John R. Yoder...
Died. Peter Maher, 71, oldtime pugilist of bare-knuckle days, onetime welter, light and heavyweight champion of Ireland, sometime bartender, dock hand, burlesque attraction ; in Baltimore. Long on powerful wallops, short on skill, Oldster Maher fought and was drubbed by Bob Fitzsimmons, Kid McCoy, John L. Sullivan...
...platform, the National Committee Secretary, Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., conspicuously avoided Big Jim Farley, his chief for four years. The demonstration ground mechanically on, Mr. Garry's screams cross-hatching the other roars into a welter of crazy sound...
...That previous attempts, including those of famed Ernst Kretschmer of Germany, to sort human physiques had bogged down in a welter of mixed types, subtypes, hybrid types, etc., because individuals would not fit preconceived categories. Sheldon attacked the pigeonholing problem from another angle: that of three structural components or characteristics (of his own devising) body measurements would enable an investigator to determine, for any person, the strength of each component. That strength could be rated numerically on a scale of 1 (almost complete absence) to 7 (almost complete dominance). Then the individual's body type would be a three...
...delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even now regarded politicos as casual, unimportant, irrelevant vermin...