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...Stair, although he began reporting when he was only 14 and kept at it until he was 30, quit newspaper work for the theatre. He wrote a play and produced it himself. The play succeeded. He was lucky. Thereafter he stayed in amusements; organized the Stair & Hamlin group of 18 theatres. When he sold out in 1916 he was reputedly the richest theatrical man in the U. S.?with...
...motor bungalow accompanied by his protege, Red Grange. Behind the bungalow came a broadcasting car which cost $1,000 a week to operate. Behind the broadcasting car, before much time had passed, came sheriffs on motorcycles. Soon the bungalow was attached for debts. At every town runners quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots for them in empty stores. In Chicago there was no cash on hand. When it seemed sure that everything...
...round, but Barnes was in the running, so were Mehlhorn and Sarazen, and as for Hagen, he was leading and looked like a certain winner-Hagen, who had been acting in the movies all winter, who had given his clubs away and decided only a few months before to quit golf, Hagen, who had been beaten 18 up by Archie Compston in an exhibition match...
...page of good-natured humor, humorous satire, and one sentence summaries of world events in TIME, and I will quit the Digest. There are others who will do likewise. It would be in the interest of economy...
...athlete must have a purpose and a willingness to work and train for that purpose," declared Padock. "Courage and the determination, never 'to quit', are the prime requisites of a champion. And it is these characteristics in the American Olympic teams that have brought victory to the United States since the Olympic Games were resumed...