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...school, he could do ten miles easily, set out to increase his range. His four brothers contributed to buy him special steaks and chops. His trainer, Angus Macdonald, gave him violet rays, electric massages, cold spray baths, hydrotherapeutic and other scientific treatments. He secured the ideal job, pushing a wheelbarrow in a greenhouse, ran back & forth to work each day with a lunch box under his arm. This winter, in addition, he did a private marathon three times a week. To pass the time not spent in running, John Adelbert Kelley likes sketching pictures, smoking cigars of which...
Even as Father Coughlin spoke the telegrams were flooding into Washington. Messengers carted them by wheelbarrow loads to the Senate Office Building. Pennsylvania's Davis and Guffey were enjoined to vote against the Court by the Squirrel Hill Station, Pa. Sunday School. As the flood mounted Western Union was forced to hire 35 extra clerks, Postal Telegraph...
Attracted by this "Hint from John Harvard" (who left his books to the college--to be burnt up in the library fire of 1764) we thought of bringing our French 2 and German A books up in a wheelbarrow and dumping them on the Widener steps some dark night. But last year we watched Mr. Walton and his men load eight tons of duplicate books, a record shipment, in a truck for a New York dealer. So we are skeptical, having never thought of John Harvard as needful of our books, either as a collector or as a broker...
...Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
...TIME. Oct. 26). Although the deal came as a surprise, nobody thought it inconsistent with Presi dent Joyce's nature. He is aggressive from head to foot, fist to jaw. Chicago-born ("back of the yards") 52 years ago, he began work when he left grammar school, pushing a wheelbarrow in a brickyard. He rose until he was president of the Mellon-controlled Standard Steel Car Co., now a part of Pullman. He plays golf only as a concession to friends, does not like the theatre, hates formal entertaining. But he never misses a good prizefight. At stag parties...