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Frank Taberski, onetime world pocket billiard champion, nicknamed "Iron Man" for his coolness in match play, found his Schenectady billiard parlor on fire, fainted...
...Smith has much the same duties as a college president. (His subordinate, Lieut-Colonel Robert C. Richardson, Commandant of Cadets, is West Point's dean.) He is liberal, much-loved by the cadets. He rescinded the Academy rules against riding in automobiles but enforces vigilantly the regulations against pocket-money and drinking (which is punishable by court-martial). During his tenure the Army and Navy have not yet been able to see eye-to-eye on football (save for post season charity matches) but he believes there may soon be a rapprochement. Last week General Smith, after 44 years...
...claim of first-to-Lincoln rested largely on his own sworn statement on reporting the autopsy to the Surgeon-General. Dr. Leale also claimed to have put the half-dollars on the dead Lincoln's staring eyes, to have bound up the drooping jaw with a pocket handkerchief...
Next day Premier Lang padlocked his State's tax offices in Sydney, slipped the keys into his pocket, slapped the pocket, defied the Commonwealth Government to collect taxes in New South Wales...
Smart is King George's youngest son Prince George. He thought up in his schooldays a way to outwit Queen Mary. She gave him only four shillings a week pocket money, exacted his word of honor not to borrow. Honorable, he priced his own autograph at two bob (shillings), sold as many as he could, clipped his father's autographs out of letters, priced and sold them for a quid (pound), but his mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers...