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Knox County, Ky., is feud country. Within its hilly boundaries, no spot is more remote than the little country store on Cold Fork Creek. 18 mi. back in the mountains from Barbourville. Walter Smith and Link Gambil, two men who had hated each other for a long time, walked into the store, grasped left hands, started pistolling each other. Feudist Gambil was shot seven times; Feudist Smith thrice. Both died...
...sunny day last week police clubs whacked about bumptious heads on the streets of New Orleans. At Hammond, 42 mi. away, three men shot out a political argument; the loser was killed, the winners wounded. In Jefferson Parish shotguns bristled about a barn where citizens were forced to "vote right or else?" behind transparent cheesecloth. Louisiana was holding a Democratic primary which was equivalent to a regular election...
...Once when he was asked to be in his office to sign an important contract, he cried, "The hell with it, the Giants are in town," hurried off to the ball park. He seldom missed a game. For several months of every year he went to Catalina Island, 12 mi. off the coast of California, which he had bought in 1919 for $2,000,000, and of which he had made a profitable business enterprise as well as a playground for himself and family. He owned the Biltmore Hotel at Phoenix in which he died, was a director of some...
...started as a stair-builder but his good dancing got him a job with a Texas cattleman. He rode in many a stampede when "all you can do is ride blind and hope to Christ." At 19 he joined the cavalry to fight Apaches; marched through the 800-mi. prairie fire of 1889. After rough riding with Roosevelt in Cuba, he became captain of the Arizona Rangers, finally penitentiary warden at Yuma (1907). All in all he calls it "a pretty good old life. Bullwhacking, cowpunching, soldiering, border ranging, she's been a grand old pasear...
...Consolidated's three component parts, two have made little effort to retail oil or gasoline. Prairie Oil & Gas owns almost 2,000,000 acres of rich producing lands in the mid-continent fields but has only a small retailing subsidiary. Prairie Pipe has about 13,000 mi. of trunk and gathering lines that honeycomb the country from the Gulf to the Great Lakes, but its business is to carry oil, not sell it. Thus, on Sinclair's retail outlets depends Consolidated success and, as a great oil salesman, that is the new president's problem...