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...National Football League (so named in 1922) started in 1920 like a free-for-all. By 1925 there were 20 teams from such places as Pottsville, Pa. and Hammond, Ind. Then the Bears signed up Red Grange and 72,000 watched him beat the New York Giants. In the next few years, rules were loosened to encourage laterals, field goals and higher scores. A League franchise was worth $50 in 1920; four years ago the Detroit Lions changed hands for about...
...interlude between wars, Mark Clark was just another officer. He went through the advanced schools-Infantry, General Staff, War College. He played tennis and ping-pong, developed a taste for fishing in the Rockies and Puget Sound. In 1924 he married blonde Maurine Doran of Muncie, Ind. Mrs. Clark has confessed publicly that she met her husband "on a blind date" in Washington. There are two children: Ann, 17, who attends a high-school sculpture class in the national capital; and Will, 18, a plebe at West Point...
There's nothing like a good war to bear out the fact that it is, after all, a small world. No less than four student officers in this activity, including your correspondent (Toots to you), are from South Bend, Ind. Three are Company D men, while the fourth, one Arch Graham, is a Baker...
Straws for the Camel. In Asbury Park, N.J., two 14-year-olds said they had thrown some stolen money into a lake, let the police drain the lake to look for it, then led them to where it really was-on the bridge overhead. In Terre Haute, Ind., the young man who held up Detective C. D. Thompson and ran away with his trousers brightly explained: "This old head of mine just tells me to do things sometimes, and I do them...
...only fighter that had to be carried both ways." When Bob was 21, a scandal-scarred Fatty Arbuckle came to Cleveland, hired Hope and a friend (George Byrne) to fill out his vaudeville act. Afterward the pair started hoofing through the hinterland. In a shabby theater in New Castle, Ind. came the turning point of Hope's career. He was asked to announce the next week's vaudeville bill, gagged the assignment to furious applause, turned monologuist on the spot. As a "single" with a flip, fast delivery, he landed a one-week job in a Chicago variety...