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...caught one near his home. Thereafter he wandered through neighboring canyons, developed an uncanny instinct for locating snakes and lizards. Poisonous reptiles he catches with a forked stick, nonpoisonous ones with his bare hands. He has never been bitten. Last week Roy Dickson, 11, fondled a Western Ring snake, rarest of his collection, planned to go after a rattler next...
...Russell and "Diamond Jim" Brady went to the track every day. That year, also, Herbert Bayard Swope, now chairman of the New York State Racing Commission, was best man at Arnold Rothstein's wedding. To Saratoga last week went old John G. Cavanagh, called back to the betting ring last spring to head New York State bookmakers, settle their disputes as he had done 27 years ago. Of New York bookmakers, who have lost close to $2,000,000 because it has been a good year for favorites, only 80 of the 100 who began to operate at Jamaica...
...president of Atlanta's Oglethorpe University, tipped the scales at 150 Ib. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge, 47, pastor of Atlanta's "Radio Church," weighed in at 135 Ib. The purse was $200, which Preacher Dodge said President Jacobs owed him for part-time teaching at Oglethorpe. The ring was President Jacobs' office. There were no spectators...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...
Sirens screeched and an open motorcar swept up with Adolf Hitler. In simple khaki the little Chancellor entered with enormous Speaker Göring, gorgeous in his self-designed uniform as a General of Aviation (see p. 16). Deputies bellowed "Heil Hitler!" General Göring banged his bell, and then there was a long wait while the Chancellor fussed with his papers before he took the rostrum. When he spoke his voice at first lacked its usual barking force. "Deputies, men of the Reichstag," he husked, "by order of the Reich Government, the Reichstag's President Göring called you together...