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...headliner in Madison Square Garden. Suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission last winter because he insisted upon, training on beer and hot dogs in his Orange saloon and doing his road work at the wheel of an automobile, Bartender Galento, whose face is the color of biscuit dough, had been reinstated for no apparent reason three weeks...
...permission, to work in the gold fields at approximately ten shillings a month. For the recruiter, the bounty is ?20 a head for boys willing to indenture themselves for three years. Flynn saw to it that most of his boys signed up for three years. He did it with biscuits, teaching the boys to expect one biscuit when he held up one finger, two for two, three for three. When the examining magistrate, required by island law to pass on all indentures, popped the important question, Flynn would gravely hold up three interrogating fingers, was invariably rewarded with almost hysterical...
...seasoned campaigner (never out of training for the past 27 months), the small (15.2 hands), broad-backed bay colt, familiarly known as The Biscuit, is a seasoned tourist as well. Last week's trip was the fourth time he had crossed the continent since his owner, San Francisco Automan Charles S. Howard, bought him two years ago at Saratoga from the late Ogden Mills...
...nature of the work is purely voluntary and there is no thought of digging up a genius now and then. The children do just whatever they wish in three hour periods each afternoon and on Saturday mornings. Each one is given a large paint brush and a biscuit tin full of colors and told to go ahead and paint. The idea is simply to give the children a chance to express themselves creatively in any way they want...
Pilot Jones, shrouded in whirling clouds, bucked the wind until he thought he was over Camden, then turned back to Newark. He missed Newark, missed New York, missed everything except a National Biscuit sign which flashed up once through the gloom, until he picked out an airway beacon...