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Died "Sergeant Murphy," 16, first U.S. owned horse to win (1923) the British Grand National; at Bogside, Scotland, "destroyed after breaking a rear leg on a turn in the West Scotland Steeplechase. He was mourned by Stephen Sanford Jr., U.S. scion who purchased him for $10,000 and won $50,000, the Grand National Trophy Cup and many another pelf-filled purse...
...blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar flight...
...Author. Born in Goshen, Mass., 46 years ago, Clarence Hawkes lost a leg at the age of nine and, four years later, both eyes. Afield to try a new gun, the boy strayed from his father, stumbled in swampy land, discharged his weapon into his own face and had to struggle two miles to the highway alone...
...sluggers of both nines with three safe hits. Burns, Ellison, Lord, and Chauncey each collected two safeties during the afternoon. Burns, the University speed merchant, who has been holding down the center field berth and leading the batting order was forced to retire in the second after injuring his leg stealing second. The flashy fly chaser opened the game with a single, and on his second appearance beat out a bunt...
...which he adopts moderately, and to Evelyn, an anemic young lost lady of the bars, whom he idealizes and takes unto himself with comparative propriety. Gaslit love* in a hall bedroom lasts until she gets a chance to go on the road with one of the immoral, new-fangled "leg-shows." Sam celebrates her departure with an attack of pneumonia that cancels his disgrace at home. Recovered, he devotes his disillusioned attention to Succeeding...