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William Randolph Hearst has the reputation of paying higher salaries to his writers than any other newspaper proprietor in the country. Lately he added another to his galaxy of facile pens, which includes Arthur Brisbane, James J. Corbett, George W. Hinman, Gene Sarazen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Jack Dempsey, Lloyd George, Damon Runyon, Prudence Penny, B. C. Forbes, James Oppenheim, Myron T. Herrick. The latest artist of the pen to join this group is Mrs. Clara Phillips, " hammer slayer...
...Rome Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, the presidency passed from America to England. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, veteran president of the Alliance, refused renomination. Mrs. Corbett Ashby, English feminist, was elected in her place...
...Another worm lias turned-a managerial one. Among the pieces which Oliver Morosco intends to try out on the Coast this summer is one called Schemers by William Irving Sirovich-a satire upon New York theatrical critics. The chief characters are Alan Gale, A. Wood Brown, James Corbett and Alex Olcott, and ah, what a rapping they get! Now can any clever little boy or girl tell just what New York critics, Mr. Sirovich has in mind? Thank you-the next puzzle competition will consist in guessing the missing letters in Philadelpia. Henry E. Dixey and Wilton Lackaye had been...
...year, continues to show promise, though its originators claim only that it has alleviated some cases and enabled patients to assimilate a more normal diet. Announcement has just been made of the "cure" of an apparently hopeless case of diabetes. A New York mathematics teacher and former athlete, Joseph Corbett, became ill in 1917, grew progressively worse, was pronounced incurable by physicians, and last October, after a breakdown, lingered on a starvation diet, too weak to turn in bed. His wife had bought a cemetery plot for him. He began a regular dosage of insulin on February...
Langford is the last bridge between the old school champions and the new. He is a little man. In his time heavyweight champions were not the giant race that rules the ring today. Jim Corbett weighed 184; Bob Fitzsimmons, 172; Tom Sharkey, 180; Peter Maher, 178. Jeffries was the only two hundred pounder among the champions of 30 years ago. Of the present group in prominence among the heavyweights, Dempsey stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 190. Harry Wills, Negro champion, rises to 6 feet 3 and weighs 215. Luis Firpo measures 6 feet 2 and weighs 225. Floyd...