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...Veracruz, conceived the idea of revolutionizing the mahogany trade by floating mahogany logs down the rivers to the Gulf. The two adventurers struggled for several days getting a mahogany log out of the forest into a small stream, where, since mahogany is heavier than water, it immediately sank...
...saloon in Lakehurst, N. J. appeared John Henry Titus, 91, with a kerosene-soaked rag in his shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...
...Hollywood last fortnight, doctors called it overwork. Last week, when he collapsed again they found a cystic tumor growing fast in his brain. Doctors at Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital sent a hurry call to Dr. Walter Edward Dandy, great brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins. Gershwin sank so fast they had to operate before Dandy could get there. Next morning at 10:35 a. m., while his brother Ira watched over him, George Gershwin died. Serious musicians joined pluggers and crooners to mourn the 38-year-old composer who had made the world sing his songs...
...Pennsylvania. At graduation Al Ulbrickson was appointed freshman coach at Washington, was made head coach next year when Rusty Callow left for Penn. Ever since, Washington has always finished at least third in the varsity races at Poughkeepsie except in 1930 when their boat was rigged too low, sank before the finish...
Sensation of the third round was supplied by game, bowlegged little Bobby Cruickshank, who punched his long irons and putts so straight that he sank five birdies for a sizzling 67, second lowest score of the entire tournament. This brought him up from 15th place to fourth, and within close striking distance once more of the title that had just eluded...