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...powerful drive by the Jersey-men at the mile marked failed to gain any ground and they fell behind the Engineers. Different from their splashing contestants the Crimson blades kept the stroke down until the last minute when a snappy leg drive at 36 jumped the Bolles boat into a lead of a length and a half of open water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR EIGHTS WIN IN REGATTA OVER RUTGERS AND TECH | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...date none of the men have shown themselves to be anything more than mediocre. Norm Blotner, Ralph Livingston, and Joe Magurn have had the starting call to date, but they are being hard pressed by Ben Ferris and Dick Lewis. Livingston has been hampered all season by a bad leg, which has slowed him down considerably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

When William S. Hart, aging patriarch of the Westerns, slid wearily from the saddle more than a decade ago, Buck Jones (real name: Charles Gebhart) already had a leg up on his larruping, law-&-order cinema career. Still riding like a Centaur after 20 years in pictures, 6-foot, 175-pound, 48-year-old Buck Jones roams a wider cinema range than did Bill Hart, sometimes puffs breakfast cereals over the radio. Last year Buck Jones earned as much as $7,500 a week, took in about $300,000 all told. Whenever a Buck Jones picture goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

When Sir Abe Bailey, rich & witty South African gold miner, had one of his legs amputated last summer, Capetown thought he was dead, dropped its flags to half mast.* Last week, suffering from phlebitis (vein inflammation), the doughty 73-year-old lost his other leg, two days later issued a personal bulletin declaring his operation successful, his condition satisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Said Sir Abe when he heard of the false report: "They won't be able to pull my leg any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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