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Last spring Skipper Wheeler of the river packet Casca made a strange etching on the frozen surface of Lake La Berge, Yukon. With an old broom and buckets of refuse oil mixed with lampblack he drew a line 40 ft. wide across a 29-mi. stretch of the lake's surface...
...with three different dogs, strangely enough such has never been the case. The only other three-time winners were William Ziegler Jr. of Manhattan and Louis Lee Haggin (nephew of Artist Ben AH Haggin), Owner Ziegler in each case with Mary Montrose (1917, 1919, 1920), Owner Haggin with Becky Broom Hill...
...Trenton, N. J., Mrs. Elsie Hudak sued for divorce, said: "My husband set me to watch a mouse hole in our home. . . . I let the mouse get away and he beat me severely with a broom handle...
...there still remained many skeptics among business men. There were some few who voiced their belief that the only training for business was acquired at a tender age with a broom on an office or factory floor. There were some others who liked to employ college men but only after someone else had "broken them in." A number conceded that a collegiate business school might impart some useful knowledge but it could not train executives. Business executives we were told, like Michel Angelos and Shakespeares, are born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first...
...track looked like a brown and olive swamp. The favorite flower of the East was Blue Larkspur, but Man O' War's gelded son Clyde Van Dusen won the race. The other Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them got wet, but the cheers...