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...ship's doctor on board the Empress of Britain, commissioned as an armed merchant-cruiser, served at other posts on sea and ashore. One night standing with the skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...
...would. with two more Stanford men placed for points behind him. Bill Miller of Stanford tied Bill Graber of U. S. C. and three others in the pole vault. Herbert of Stanford won the 200-metre low hurdles which made three first places to Southern California's one-Bob Lyon, in the 110-metre high hurdles. But Southern California had an army of runners to get the seconds, thirds and fourths that count most in track meets...
...given it a place to rehearse in his big Hub Store. Boxing, not music, was George Lytton's hobby when he first joined his father in the men's clothing business. He used to be regarded as amateur heavyweight champion, fought in his youth against Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack Johnson. He kept punching bags and skipping ropes in his office where now he has double-basses and oboes (his collection includes 28 big fiddles) which he lends to his fellow amateurs...
...Bob Gillespie was an innocuously ordinary type. Put through college and launched in San Francisco business and society by Woman No. 1, his penny-watching, ambitious mother, his future looked fairly rosy. He should have married Woman No. 2, Dixey, with whom he fell in love at college; but she had no money, even less background than Bob, so his mother soon put a stop to that. Woman No. 3, Pen, hollow-chested but popular debutante, had hearty parental approval. Pen was not rich but she had an aged aunt who was. Meantime Bob became pleasantly entangled with Woman...
When the War came Bob had nowhere else to go. He worked so hard as a soldier, did so well that he was finally promoted to major, put in command of a Negro battalion, all venereal cases. Solace in these trying times was Woman No. 7, Bella, lusty wife of a shriveled colonel. Demobilized, Bob went back to San Francisco, married Julia and settled down. Then Bella appeared again, lured him away. But when she took to drink he was disgusted with her. Bella, creature of impulse, shot him in the stomach. The nurse at his deathbed was none other...