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...Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise squiggle of Georgia's Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, affixed in witness of a farmer's will. In 1927 Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than any man had ever before...
...13th day the animal was able to crawl a little on its mat. "Its right front leg has limbered up," reported Dr. Cornish. "If we succeed in restoring the dog completely to life and consciousness," he said, "our next step will be experiments to save the lives of human beings...
Penn. Franklin Field was one vast, miserable mud puddle, but 5,000 spectators turned out in the rain to see the ½mi. anchor-leg duel in the sprint medley between Indiana's Charles ("Chuck") Hornbostel and Princeton's William ("Bonny") Bonthron. Hornbostel's team mates gave him an advantage of 4 yd. at the start, but the spectacled Hoosier runner, who looks more like some obscure grind in a chemistry department than a track captain, did not need it. At the finish. Bonthron 6 yd. behind. Next day Indiana also won the one-and two-mile...
...Grand Canyon, Ariz., when a fractured leg trapped H. W. Moulton in a canyon bottom, rescuers hoisted his stretcher high above their heads, toiled along a river bed for 36 hours, sometimes up to their necks in water, lugged him to safety...
...Washington, D.C., Donald Leo Boyd, 2, spied the open end of a pipe sticking out of the ground, shoved his chubby leg into it. When the leg stuck, Donald cried. A crowd collected, sent for emergency, police and fire squads. The crowd grew to more than 1,000, jamming traffic as they milled and chattered. A policeman split open the pipe while Donald clung to his father, thoughtfully inspected his fellow Washingtonians, sucked his fingers...