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This week's column is dedicated to antiquity. In line with this it should be mentioned that a number of new and improved records have been cut by the revitalized Kid Ory Band with Omer Simcon and Papa Mutt Carey still effectively holding back father time...
...look at this kid Brown we've got," he'll start off. "He's one of the greatest natural passers and runners I ever saw. Better than Bertelli. And Fast? . . . at school he ran the hundred in 9.6. Two years in the Army have really filled him out, and if Brown doesn't make All-American this fall something's sure wrong." That's the beginning. A good tub thumper has the same story on everyone who has even looked at a football suit...
...should see this kid Smith that's back after three years in the Navy...
...little girl a big funeral, her drab birthplace, Coaltown, Pa., was jammed with bishops, Hollywood producers, newspapermen, sobbing atheists, tender rabbis. Orchids poured in from the greenhouses of the rich; the local miner's union donated a handmade altar. Even St. Michael ("the saint who took on Kid Lucifer and put him down and out for the full count") came across with a couple of helpful miracles, and the corpse's ghost made several personal appearances, clad in "a faded blue dress...
...tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...