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Stephen Dutton was always considered a very fast man with a dollar - preferably someone else's dollar. But in his prime, in the dim, goldbrick, 0. Henry era of gentle grafters, patent-medicine fakers, conmen and bunco artists, Steve the Swindler was regarded as especially expert in talking himself into funds and out of trouble. He ranked with Grand Central Pete and Paper Collar Joe, who were tops in bilking the rubes; for a time Steve Dutton was partner of the old master, Perrin Sumner, who was known in the Gay '90s as The Great American Identifier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sinner Emeritus | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Mike Ford is the leading pole vaulter with Chet d'Autremont not quite able to equal Ford's 13 feet as yet. Bill Couch and Steve Brooks are the other vaulters. The hammer throw has Bob Chase and Tom White both guaranteeing performances better than 140 feet with Chases a shade more than that. Harold Smith is the third tosser in that event. At this point the javelin is probably Mikkola's weakest event, with an undeveloped group led by Tem Lacey, John Ordway, and Bob Chase...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moakin, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 4/16/1941 | See Source »

...rail of the Arauca, the 44 interned German sailors watched the drinks being passed around on the Potomac's afterdeck, stared at the Presidential party-Harry Hopkins, Cabinet Officers Robert Jackson and Harold Ickes, the President's physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, Secretaries "Pa" Watson and Steve Early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rest | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Veteran Goalie Steve O'Neill will mind the nets for the yearlings and, judging by past performances and Hodder's forecasts, is set to outperform his Eli rival. The relative ability of the two teams in the cage will go a long way towards deciding the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

...Indians went out ahead in 8:35 of the first period when the Riley-Harrison combination from up North beat "Steve" O'Neill, who had come out of the crease to make the save only to have the puck bounce off his stick into the cage...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: PAPOOSES NIP 1944 HOCKEY TEAM, 2 to 1 | 2/28/1941 | See Source »

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