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...Demon, The new liquor business is not a rebirth of the old. Clearing the two is more than Prohibition. The War and post-War period so rusted the old machinery that even the base castings had to be scrapped. Liquormen know they will be exposed to fierce public criticism. What got under their skins at the code hearings last week was Washington's bland assumption that they were totally incapable of selfdiscipline. They were convinced that, if given a chance, they could push whiskey into a respectable place high in big business circles. Seton Porter and his associates were...
...most colorful as well as ablest city editor. Stanley Walker fulfills the first requisite of a Manhattanite by having been born elsewhere (on a Texas ranch), its second by living outside Manhattan (at Great Neck, L.I., where he keeps his wife, two children). Short, wiry, cigar-smoking, a demon for work and night life, Editor Walker knows a good deal for one so young (33) about his adopted city. Though he sees through its mundane glory, smiles at its sophisticated wickedness and remains unbewildered by its multifarious complexity, he is still fascinated by "that fabulous city...
...Iron Duke" of U. S. sport, longtime member of New York State's Athletic Commission; of cancer of the prostate gland; at Purchase, N. Y. As world's Graeco-Roman wrestling champion in the 1880's, he successfully defended his title against Clarence Whistler, "The Kansas Demon," in three historic draw matches. In the third Muldoon broke Whistler's collarbone. In 1881 Muldoon discovered John L. Sullivan, arranged his first New York boxing match at Harry Hill's. Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm...
...Speed Demon Curry...
...first place in these events. His speed was utilized on the eleven as third man on the triple pass, then comparatively new. Invariably he would pass the line of scrimmage ahead of the first man receiving the pass. What a joy to run interference for this speed demon...