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Last week, while his lawyers scurried about in vain to get a stay of execution pending appeal, Jermyn got into his automobile, drove blithely off to Walton, N. Y. where he had racehorses running, returned in time to begin his sentence...
...Cubs. Next day the Cubs won the second game of the series 9 to 8 in the 13th inning, after scoring 5 runs in the ninth to tie, 5-5, pulling even again 8-8 in the nth. In the third game burly Hack Wilson, Cub centrefielder, drove his 45th homerun of the season in the first inning with two men on base and his 46th in the fourth. That put him two homers ahead of the National League record, and two ahead of Babe Ruth of the American League. The Cubs won, 16 to 4, stayed .051 points ahead...
Just after one midnight last week 200 masked men drove up to the Edgecombe County jail in Tarboro, N. C., gained admittance by pretending they brought a prisoner. Silently they drew revolvers, covered the deputy sheriff, brought out Negro Oliver Moore, 35, who was being held for trial in September on a charge of attacking Ethel and Lucile Morgan, white sisters aged...
Chicago's able publicist and health commissioner, Dr. Arnold Henry Kegel, last week again assembled a pack of reporters and photographers, led them to the Charles Bamberger home, picked up Mr. & Mrs. Bamberger and their disputed child, drove to the William Watkins home. Commissioner Kegel was going to put a real end to the fight over the mixed babies of the two families (TIME, July 28, Aug. 4). Argumentative Mr. Watkins was not at home. But Mrs. Watkins was. She and the Bambergers now decided, with Commissioner Kegel's persuasion, that for over a month they had been...
...party every day. Once more, in spite of predictions that the international polo and America's Cup races would lure Englishmen away, and the depressed stockmarket keep Americans at home, fires blazed high in feudal halls rented for the season. Once more beaters in a semicircle drove toward the blinds; once more, amid smells of gunpowder and bog myrtle, the birds rose and were shot at. Most sportsmen who go to Scotland after Aug. 12 and before the end of September, go because they know, or want to learn, the rules of a peculiar, a social kind of shooting...