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...late Mr. Bedford lived in Westport, Conn., commuted five days a week to his Manhattan office. He had white chop whiskers like the late George F. Baker's, a fondness for gardens and horses (especially trotters which he still drove at 80), an antipathy to tobacco and liquor. In business he was stern, having received late training (after 40) in the hard school that was old Standard Oil. Rockefeller, Pratt, Archbold and Rogers were among his teachers in that school...
...Lake Garda, Italy, Loretta Turnbull, 18-year-old Monrovia, Calif, out-boarder, competed against the best professional drivers in Europe for the PFN cup, put up by the Fascist Party in a meet organized by Poet-Out boarder Gabriele d'Annunzio. She drove her Sunkist Kid V across the line first in the first heat, second in the next after fixing her motor which had faltered at the start, won the cup on her average time...
...Kansas City, Mo., Anthony C. Skrocki, 20, drove up to a police station, shouted: "Arrest me quick! I've just stolen this truck. I haven't had a thing to eat for three days and it must be about time to eat in there!" Anthony C. Skrocki was arrested...
...managed to get him into the University of Indiana. But Dreiser's year there was a failure, left him with little respect for formal education, which he regards as "a serviceable means of passing the time." Back in Chicago he worked in a hardware store, drove a laundry truck, changed jobs usually for the worse. But then he entered the lists of love, acquitted himself not so badly. That perked him up. The book (and his youth, says Dreiser) ends with his discharge for "borrowing" money from his boss's funds. There is still a long...
Born in Georgia, Samuel Palmer Brooks grew up on a Texas farm. His father, Samuel Erskine Brooks, a poor Baptist preacher, taught school and farmed, sometimes drove 50 miles to Dallas to get a dollar's worth of kerosene so that his family could read and study at night. Young Samuel worked on the farm, hauled wood, became a section hand on the Santa Fe Railroad, taught school. He entered Baylor in 1887, worked and studied alternately until he was graduated in 1893. One year his roommate was Pat Morris Neff who became Governor of Texas in 1921. Taking...