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...ready to pour out killing live steam in case of mutiny. With their blankets cowled over their heads, the more confident "grey rats" were already plotting escape. Their chances are better now than when Devil's Island first earned its dread name. In the past year a daring ring of smugglers has earned fat fees by helping 100 prisoners escape from the Isles of Safety and the penal camps on the mainland...
When Jack Sharkey, jowled, beefy and 31, climbed into the ring of Philadelphia's Baker Bowl one night last week he became $25,000 richer. When Tommy Loughran, likewise 31, slack-bellied and scarred from 16 years of prizefighting, entered the opposite corner he knew he would collect not one cent for what was about to happen...
...excess of Sharkey's guarantee; and less than 8,000 persons felt like paying to see a fight which could decide but one thing: which of two outworn heavyweights was due for immediate oblivion. Loughran, a quiet, well-liked fellow, had never been a powerful threat in the ring since he stepped up from the light-heavyweight class. Sharkey knocked him out four years ago. And now talkative, wealthy Sharkey, only three months ago the champion, had left his last claim to importance on the floor of a Chicago ring where King Levinsky knocked him last month (TIME, Sept...
Investigation has revealed that the only reason for ringing the chapel bell each morning is that all responsible agent, tradition. Alexander, the janitor of Memorial Church, In answer to questions on the subject, replied, "It's just like my having to ring it with a rope instead of by electricity; they always have rung the Chapel bell that way so they probably always will, even in this new building...
...passing of Ring Lardner stills another beloved but misunderstood voice. Mr. Lardner, like Mr. Ade, was a complete master of one environment, and within his peculiar limitations a deep and a sincere artist. Much nonsense, of course, has been talked about the bitter smile under the painted grin he wore, and many of the critical faculty could never restrain a condescending note when they spoke, in Mr. Mencken's phrase, of the golden heart that beat beneath the motley. So long as our illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips...