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...which has made possible the construction of the University's first-class "swimmery" and indoor athletic plant. When Mr. Bingham reached Los Angeles an unsigned letter in hand-writing was delivered at his hotel room. The note merely stated that if he wished to get in touch with Mickey Riley (the noted Olympic diver whom Alumnus Aquaticus wished to have present at the dedication of the pool) he would be able to do so. Riley accepted the invitation as he will appear in Chicago at the N. A. A. U. championships the week after the Cambridge meet. But Mr. Bingham...
...jewels; two days later went to Harbor Sanitarium to have out her appendix. Though cancellation of her passage to France helped to make the operation seem dramatically sudden, it was not; Authoress Joyce's room at the hospital had been engaged for weeks. Last week one Barbara ("Billie") Riley, cinema dancer, prepared a breach of promise suit for $100.000. In the pocket of her fiance Joe May. vaudevillian, Dancer Riley claimed to have found a picture of Peggy Joyce inscribed: "To My Baby Joe, Love?...
...late Poet James Whitcomb Riley, said Miss Maude Wells, his one-time stenographer: "Sometimes Riley would go for a year or two without touching liquor. When he did start to drink, he drank until his system was satisfied, however. Drinking was a family curse that ran back for generations...
...removal to the penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under whose crazed imagination the world is like a nightmare under a magnifying glass; Dippy, the pyromaniac, to whom...
...Shades of Lew Wallace and James Whitcomb Riley...