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Giulia Morosini was the only woman allowed to drive three horses abreast in Central Park. They were hitched to a high blue dogcart. She wore a blue driving habit and their harness was of blue kid to match, trimmed with solid silver. One day a saddle horse bolted with her in the Park. She was rescued by Mounted Policeman Arthur M. Werner, whom she promptly married. In 1916 ex-Policeman Werner tried to make her raise his allowance from $75,000 to $100,000 a year. She kicked him out of the house, had the marriage annulled...
...last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring car and a four-piece band proceeded up & down the island making naive, earnest little speeches at village corners. Mrs. Whitney's hunter took a ribbon at the Piping Rock...
...procedure not uncommon in U. S. newspaper offices is what is known as "kidding the pants off a story." Last week the Press of Chicago, as if sensitive about its reputation for glorifying crime, elected to "kid the pants off" a murder trial...
...Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary, where he had been seven years for killing a woman in a drunken brawl, walked paunchy Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 59, oldtime middleweight prizefighter noted for his craftiness and cruelty in the ring. By plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting...
Hardly less gory and sincere were Sammy Fuller and Jack ("Kid") Berg in New York, the former outpointing the latter in twelve rounds. Fuller's victory was supposed to entitle him to meet the champion, Tony Canzoneri, between whom and Petrolle there is little to choose...