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...Wootton, who traveled 5,000 miles in unmapped, hostile country; James Ohio Pattie, who preferred adventurous hardships to riches and domestic bliss; Armijo, sheep-thief who became the absolute dictator of New Mexico; indefatigable Bishop Lamy, hero of Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Billy the Kid, who "briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero...
...lucky Harry Palmerton Williams, son of the late Louisiana cypress tycoon Frank Williams. To the devoted Cajun and Negro swampers of Patterson, La., the one-street milltown over which he and his wife (onetime Film Actress Marguerite Clark) reign in baronial style, "Mister Harry" is known as "the Speed Kid." He had already made himself a local god with fast horses, fast automobiles, speed boats, when in 1926 Barnstormer Jimmy Wedell dropped down into Patterson to look around. Among the gawpers who flocked about Wedell's rickety crate was ''Speed Kid" Williams, then 40. Results: Wedell taught...
Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
...every generation of fighters there is likely to be at least one colored fisticuffer who enjoys the prestige which, in Kid Chocolate's case, is best indicated by the fact that fight critics last week felt - even though he had roundly whipped the best available challenger - that Chocolate had failed to do himself justice. Now 22, Chocolate arrived in the U. S. four years ago. won 167 fights before he lost his first one, to Lightweight Jack Berg two years ago. Before that he had been a newsboy in Havana, learned to box by studying cinemas of Panama...
...sophisticated residents of Danbury, Conn. might be surprised to hear that a Danbury woman said: "They started to have one for us, but my husband went out and sent them off to the saloon." In Newport, N. H.: "I went to one or two when I was a kid. Now they rice 'em up and confetti 'em up." In Hartland, Conn.: " 'Member when we serenaded. Drinked up three gallon...