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...Hardest tackle seen on Soldiers Field this year was by backer-up Cliff Wilson and Joe Gardella on Mountain; the latter fumbled, causing a touchback, and he was never himself thereafter . . . Tom Healey continued his steady improvement and now ranks with Booth to give Harvard as outstanding a tackle pair as exists in the East...
When Mr. Bullitt arrived, after surviving a forced landing two days before in the airplane of Governor Earle of Pennsylvania, the perennial rumor of a War debt settlement with France revived. Europe's affairs were doubtless a leading topic for discussion. The pair went motoring, talked long and privately while picnic-lunching at the roadside...
...group of Adrian citizens built in 1836 the Erie & Kalamazoo R.R., linking the navigable waters of the Kalamazoo River with Lake Erie. Only 22 miles long, it was the first railroad west of Schenectady. A pair of horses hitched in tandem pulled the original two-story, twelve-passenger day coach or "pleasure car." When addition of a 20-horsepower, wood-burning locomotive failed to pull Erie & Kalamazoo through ten years of hard times, it was sold to satisfy creditors...
...stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He had traveled 3,000 miles by plane, had tramped 155 miles on foot, had taken 2,860 strokes on 600 holes, had worn out two dozen pair of gloves, had not lost a ball. His lowest score was 77, his highest...
...Kansas-Texas and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads. ICC said No. A few years later the Van Sweringens wanted to merge it with their sprawling Missouri Pacific. Hard times quashed that idea. In 1931 Chicago Great Western got control of K.C.S. But litigation, instituted by Railroader Loree, kept the pair apart. Last week, Kansas City Southern once more was on the verge of matrimony-this time proposed by its Board Chairman Harvey Crowley Couch...