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Least familiar selection in the volume is Robert Davis' excellent story of the Fitzsimmons v. Corbett fight, beginning when Corbett, meeting Fitzsimmons doing roadwork, airily refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with...
...footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have an excellent chance to win. Her small, earnest oval face set in serious lines, Mrs. Vare leaned over her ball, tapped it with her putter. When it dropped into the cup, she smiled, walked over to shake hands...
...brought under the supervision of SEC and the Federal Power Commission which may order any item on a company's books changed. No officer or director of a bank, brokerage or investment house may serve as an officer or director of a utility?a provision which will bring wholesale shake-ups in personnel when it becomes effective one year hence. But the provisions which were last week giving utilitarians the severest headaches concerned three words all beginning with "D"? "death sentence," dividends, depreciation...
...Governor George H. Earle. Midway in his speech a lanky youth of 19 stepped out on the flag-decked platform unannounced, sidled toward a chair. With a happy roar, the delegates leaped to their feet, charged up to the platform, shunted Governor Earle aside as they fought to shake the hand of Youngest Son John Roosevelt...
...Saratoga natives, accustomed to this change which occurs annually with the opening, for the month of August, of the oldest and most glamorous U. S. racetrack, did not allow themselves to become perturbed by it last week. Not so the sparrows which nest in the elm trees that shake like huge dark fans over Saratoga's Broadway. Disturbed by lights that burned all night, roused by bookmakers who on the street below kept up a shrill chatter until long after midnight, the birds chattered also, lapsed into nervous silence with the rest of the town, toward dawn...