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...last week. In the dark hallway a light was flashed into his face. He saw the glint of a revolver. "Stick 'em up!" a hard voice ordered. Instead, Dr. Leiva, 51 and husky, fell upon the intruder, grappled for his throat. They wrestled about. The pistol fired wildly. "Pete! Pete!" called the stranger and up from the basement came "Pete" to join the tussle. Dr. Leiva was given a hard pate-pounding with a revolver butt. Blood blinded him. He dropped to the floor. The burglars escaped out a rear entrance...
Successor is his grandson, Young Pete, a dark checker pigeon. Twice has Young Pete beaten a field of 3,200 pigeons in races from Washington...
...George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, famed young poloist and gentleman jockey: the Byers Cup golf tournament at Aiken, S. C. C. Grinning, feline Jean Borotra; Tilden-esque Francis Shields; curly-haired Clif- ford Sutter; stumble-footed Berkeley Bell: their easy first-round tennis matches in the National Indoor Singles Championships; in Manhattan...
According to authorities on the scene, the fire was not permitted to assume serious proportions. Once out there arose two schools of thought concerning the origins of the Great Fire. One, headed by Pete Hartwell, of the night watch, doggedly maintained that there was no fire at 9 o'clock, when he made his diurnal round. His feeling about the matter was that a heated salamander in a fit of pique had started the whole business. Mr. Phillips, one of Mr. Hartwell's colleagues, contended that it could have been nothing else than an irresponsible gas saw, which had somehow...
Standard of New York. Through its subsidiary, General Petroleum Corp., Standard Oil Co. of New York is potent on the west coast, has strengthened its position through the purchase of many a small independent marketer. Last week General Pete acquired A. M. Mortensen, Inc., large distributor of San Jose, Calif. Brand name of General Pete's gasoline: Violet...