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...much lighter vein wrote "Congressman" Westbrook Pegler, whose sport colyum is syndicated through the Tribune: "I do not favor the return of the old saloon. Too many of our citizens owed bills in the old saloons, and if the saloons came back they would be subject to annoyance...
...loud, mechanically jovial martial air is the "Stein Song" of the University of Maine. It had become popular through the efforts of Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who, born 30 years ago in Island Pond, Vermont, had grown up in Westbrook, Maine, gone to Yale University, become a crooner. The State of Maine has been hunting an official song. "How about the 'Stein Song'?," asked someone. Replied Chairman Daniel W. Hoegg of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau last week: "The 'Stein Song' may help the University of Maine, but it doesn't say a thing...
...that has caused him to be called, pound for pound, the best fighter in the world. He bobbed, squirmed, charged, wove, ducked, slammed and smashed at Sharkey, trying to hit his face more than his body. He swung in under Sharkey's high guard with what Westbrook Pegler colorfully called "the simian roll of a vaudeville baboon on roller skates." In the seventh round, a right caught Sharkey on the chin. He went back against the ropes, the crowd roaring...
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...Pittsburgh one James Plunkett, 52, panhandler, begged Harry Westbrook, 90, for a dime. Westbrook gave him 25?. Plunkett demanded more. Westbrook took off Plunkett's eyeglasses, felled him with a smart blow...