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Well did Mrs. Hoover know that the voice was that of her son Herbert, radio engineer, describing over a nation-wide hook-up the Army's final air maneuvers above San Francisco from a giant Fokker...
...East Entry--A. L. Devens 1 Middle Entry--W. M. Dunn 35 West Entry--T. H. Culhane 50 HAMILTON A Entry--L. M. Abbott A-24 B Entry--D. Sweeney B-22 C Entry--S. Frame C-13 D Entry--A. Royse D-23 HOLLIS North Entry--W. E. Hook 30 South Entry--W. W. Ryan 3 HOLWORTHY East Entry--B. Barnes Middle Entry--H. P. Minis West Entry--C. M. Dunlap 99 BRATTLE STREET C. W. Lowry D. E. Mann 5 LINDEN STREET Whole house--Potter Palmer LIONEL North Entry--E. D. Emigh 4 South Entry--C. F. Hartnett...
...Buffalo, N. Y., when told by his teacher to leave the class for being "unruly," eight-year-old Girard Lyons went into the coat room, hung himself from a coat hook with his necktie...
...room, a travelling crane was busily in action, its massive hook swinging in long even arcs as the operator, perched in a box-like contraption 40 feet above the floor, controlled the apparatus with a small hand switch...
Black Bill bobbed smartly, threw a left hook, a straight right, flew off the ropes like a whirligig. Midget Wolgast danced round him in circles from left to right, his left hook working like the plunger of a sewing machine, his long hair flying. Every three or four rounds of the 15 that kept the crowd roaring, the Midget showed a new trick: breaking a wild flurry he would stand stock still, holding his left hand high until Black Bill led at it, then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes...