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...textbook engraving of Christopher Columbus discovering America would excite no special curiosity in most small girls, Victorian or modern. But one blue-eyed, chestnut-haired Philadelphia child gazed at it during the late 1860'sand wondered. What about those red Indians peeping through the forest at the white man? What about their souls...
Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...
Beyond Tampico's forest of oil derricks, heavy weather buffeted the plane. Pilot Clevenger had to turn back, flying so low that the prelate's nervousness increased to terror. That night they kept him in Tampico. Next day he was placed on a "special train" (engine and one car) guarded by 30 soldiers. They did not reach the border until close to midnight. A group of priests and U. S. officials were there to receive the Archbishop, forward news of his arrival to the Vatican, install the exile in a private home to await developments...
...Denver M. Wright, big game hunter, member of the St. Louis school board and onetime police commissioner of the suburb of Brentwood, this suggested something. Last week from a stranded circus he bought two lionesses. One night this week he intended to release them on a 26,000-acre forest near the Tennessee border. Next morning with two airedales and six hounds he expected to hunt the lionesses to their death. Said he: ''You can't hunt big game in Missouri, so I decided to supply my own quarry. Just sort of bringing Africa to the United...
...keep Africa out of the U. S. was the intention of Sheriff Jesse Jackson of Mississippi County, site of Hunter Weight's proposed lion hunt. Three families living in the 26,000-acre forest were indifferent...