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...Oldfield in Joplin...
...Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition, Speedster Oldfield raced only against time. That...
Last week Barney Oldfield, onetime auto-racer, revisited Joplin. Driving a small standard coupe with its bargain price painted cheaply on the side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by two auto salesmen and two small boys, sons of employes of the firm. Their requests for Oldfield autographs were the only echo of the clamoring crowd of 25 years...
Jubilant over the crowds that had come to Canterbury was the Rt. Rev. Winfrid Oldfield Burrows, Bishop of Chichester, famed in Great Britain for his "modern" methods of popularizing religion. Carefully he had studied the success of medieval miracle plays at Salzburg under the 20th Century Producer Max Reinhardt. Elaborate was the similar festival the earnest Bishop arranged for Canterbury. Throughout the week, Dr. Faustus by Kit Marlowe, who used to lie and dream on Canterbury's hills, was alternated with Everyman. Other attractions were concerts in the Cathedral's nave, serenades in the cloisters, chamber music...
...side in battle. . . . This tragic toll exacted by the Grim Reaper may awaken the American people to a new understanding. . . . We loved these fallen comrades of ours. . . . Vaile, called from the lofty outlook of his beloved mountains to the infinite horizons of eternity. . . . King, efficient attorney of Galesburg. . . . Oldfield, a man four square. . . . Butler, elder statesman, delicate whimsical humor. . . . Frothingham, gentleman of the old school...