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...stand up under punishment. When he fights, his face sometimes gets puckered up. It never gets nasty. The Champion William Harrison Dempsey-what he eats, wears, says, earns, fears, hopes for, and remembers-has supplied the news-mills with endless grist ever since the blazing day he poked Jess Willard in the stomach. He has never been a popular champion. The "slacker" talk helped to make him disliked; it was abetted by many other things, the fact that he married a moving picture star and thereby enrolled himself among the dilettantes of Hollywood; the fact that he acted in sentimental...
...usually along, taking photographs of his father and the fauna. The two were together on the African hunting trip of 1909-10, on the Brazilian "River of Doubt" exploration of 1914. (Between 1911 and 1916 Kermit made essays at engineering and banking in South America. He married Belle Wyatt Willard of Richmond...
Eliza Kellas, principal, Emma Willard School...
...CRIMSON spread will begin at 5 o'clock and last until 7. Dancing will later begin at 9 o'clock and will last until 3 o'clock. Mrs. Willard L. Bridges will be the head patroness and Boyle's Orchestra will supply the music...
...CITY OF THE SACRED WELL -T. A. Willard-Century ($4). Here is the story, told by an intimate friend, of Edward Herbert Thompson - "Don Eduardo", as they call him in Yucatan-to whom is credited the bulk of modern archeological knowledge of the great Mayan civilizations. Reading explorers' books as a boy in snug New England, he connected himself with the Peabody Museum and the American Antiquarian Society, which obtained him the first U. S. consulship in Yucatan and opportunity to devote most of his life to baring the secrets of Chichen Itza, the Mayan capital. Besides constituting...