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These earnings, announced last week by the Interstate Commerce Commission, brought out charges so bitter that one might have supposed that the railroads not only had made big money but had made it through the devious exploits of a Gould, Fisk, or Daniel Drew...
...Famed for his murder in 1872 of his friend Jim Fisk (Jay Gould's partner) after quarrels over bad business and bad, buxom Actress Josie Mansfield. Killer Stokes got off with four years in Sing Sing, emerged to buy control of the Hoffman House...
Born in Memphis, Dr. Imes graduated from Union in 1915, served as president of its Alumni Club, holds degrees from Fisk, Columbia and Lincoln Universities. In 17 years at St. James' he has built up a devoted, self-sustaining congregation. He is active in racial affairs, a trustee of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, of the Department of Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches...
...shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady and not yet be come a gentleman." Of course there are omissions. Francis I's gallant "All is lost save honor" is quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk's complacent revision of it, substituting "nothing" for "all," does not appear. Kipling's "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" is in its proper place (under Cigar, not Woman) but e. e. cummings' acerb switch ("For a bad cigar is a woman...
...annual Fisk Trophy slalom will be held on Suicide Six on Sunday afternoon, and several of the Crimson runners are entered, including Ames, Forner, Winship, and King. Undoubtedly the best skiers from the other competing colleges will enter the race also, and the repeat performance will probably settle any doubts about the merits of the respective contestants, if such doubts are raised because of snow conditions of the day before...