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...intercollegiate wrestling championship, played tackle on the football team. A steady, dogged, democratic young man, he made and held many a good and potent friend at New Haven. After two years at the Yale Law School, he returned to Omaha, married Regina Connell, who bore him two sons and a daughter, got his law degree at the University of Nebraska, was admitted to the bar in 1922. The genial contacts of politics attracted him. He served a year as a deputy county attorney, went to the Nebraska legislature for a term. His Omaha friends groomed him for Mayor, then decided...
When books by Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper first appeared, they bore the imprint of G. P. Putnam who started publishing in 1837. Now oldest of U. S. publishing houses of direct descent is G. P. Putnam's Sons, its management having passed to the third generation. Last week the flux that has lately been tossing the book industry about seized this venerable firm...
...Antwerp these seven super-gunmen must first fire 120 shots apiece in a three-day Small Bore (.22 calibre) Competition, then another 120 shots apiece in the main event (three days more). In their baggage last week were ten of the finest rifles ever produced by the Springfield Armory, specially stocked to individual measures, and 5,000 rounds of special ammunition designed by ballistic experts of the Ordnance branch of the Army. Said Team Captain Boles...
Late that night the News appeared with a full front-page picture of Baby Lindbergh (and with the comment that the baby looked less like its father than like its mother). This News picture looked exactly like the pose given the A. P. It bore no credit line. A few hours afterward the Mirror, American, Journal and Graphic were on the streets, each flaunting a front-page picture apparently identical to the one in the News. The four papers quoted no source, but one way of obtaining the picture would have been to photograph the front-page of the News...
...Curtiss Condor biplane, taxiing to its hangar at a Long Island airport, suddenly ground looped, plowed into a crowd of holiday spectators. The whirling propellers killed a man and a wife. The plane bore the insignia of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser of T. A. T.-Maddux. Daily News screamed in full width headlines: LINDBERGH LINER KILLS...