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...Toledo, Clarence Kehr Jr., 6, standing 4 ft. I in., weighing 87 lb., was barred from both public and Catholic schools because he has a bass voice, smokes, has to shave, is as strong as a grown man. He can lift persons bulking 250 lb., 200-lb. dumbbells, can push without strain a lawn roller, or an automobile filled with passengers. Prime stunt: lifting Jack Dempsey when Dempsey scaled 202 lb. Born normal, Clarence Jr. continued so until 9 mos. old. Between 9 mos. and 3½ years he grew ten years physically in all things except height. When...
...finance committee of Crowell Publishing Co. and Thomas William Lamont, banker. Joseph Knapp, although he was once arrested for shooting too many ducks on his island in North Carolina, has long regretted the fact that U. S. birds are disappearing. Last spring, Mr. Knapp read a book on black bass written by Senator Hawes, decided that Senator Hawes was the man to head an efficient commission. He offered him the presidency for ten years at a salary of $50,000 per year. The new president, who also wrote a book on the dog, will begin work at once but will...
Died. Heywood Cox Broun, 80, one-time printer (Broun, Green & Adams), onetime associate of Thomas McMullin & Co. (bottlers of Guiness stout and White Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts...
...Bureau of Fisheries tries to save the Mississippi's stranded fish before the summer sun dries up the pools. Hauling up load after load of suffering fish, the rescuers return them to the main stream of the river or ship them away to stock special preserves. Black bass, pickerel pike, pike perch, white bass, yellow perch, crappies cannot stand crowding, bad water, must be rescued first. Buffalo fish, carp and catfish are toughest...
Ralph Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...