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...decades as a professional burglar, gaunt, nervous Steve Rumnoch had done nicely at his specialty-breaking into houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...
World of Margarac & Mestrovic. In Pennsylvania's steel country, men tell of Hungarian Joe Margarac, who could lift a locomotive with his finger, and his rival, the Slav Steve Mestrovic, who could twist 500-lb. bars of iron with his bare hands; they boiled their eggs in a Bessemer converter and combed their hair with traveling cranes. Margarac and Mestrovic belonged to legend, to Pittsburgh and to an industrial development that had its counterparts but never its equal anywhere in the world...
...When I helped Anna White I had no idea of getting something back," mused Portia. "But now, at a time when I need her most, she comes to me offering to try to get the facts I need to break Steve Ward's alibi. God has a strange and wonderful way of knowing what He's doing...
Other winners of the week: ¶ At Chicago's Washington Park, Calumet Farm's Ponder, with Jockey Steve Brooks up, sizzled a mile and a quarter in 2:oo|-a new track record. The $66,150 he won made Ponder the turf's leading 'moneywinner of the year ($267,525). ¶ At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Red Sox Left-Hander Mel Parnell hurled his team to a victory over the White Sox, 11-4, became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this year...
Charley has other worries besides Haines' skill at croquet. He is waiting for Milton Caniff's annual drawing. Each year, the creator of Terry and the Pirates and the present author of Steve Canyon sends the Harvard crew a drawing of one of his scantily clad lovelies for a good luck token. He informed Morgan that this year's drawing was in the works. But it hasn't arrived at Red Top yet and Morgan is looking for it in each mail. Superstitution or not, this Harvard outfit isn't overlooking a bet for Friday. After all, this...