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Wrestler Sonnenberg, 29, onetime Dartmouth footballer, butted and struggled with Wrestler Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; threw him once; drove him off the mat so often that Lewis cried quits. Many a spectator adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...
...Ever since the Nationalist Armies drove from China proper that rapacious, blood-thirsty War Lord Chang Tsung-chang (TIME, Sept. 24), many an alert occidental has queried: "What's become of Chang...
...district, opened to homesteaders, began to change from a cattle to a farming region. The old Colonel continued to raise nothing but cattle, ran into the Panic of the '90's, crashed. A Kansas City commission house, owing him $300,000, failed. Creditors arrived, drove off the cattle, left the Millers with 88 ancient horses and cattle, cripples and runts...
...should not be concluded, however, that even the 1928 bull market drove all stocks up to a 30X figure. Railroads, for example, were conservatively priced; so was many an industrial not blessed with pool backing. The following table shows 1928 earnings per share, 1928 high, and ratio of earnings to quotations for the following representative stocks...
...Robert Wright Stewart, 62, is 6 ft., 1 in. tall, weighs 240 Ibs., and has four children. As a youngster he drove oxen on his father's farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he plays golf and goes to prize fights. He is one of the burliest and most outspoken men in the public...