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Years ago Les Wolfe of Little Rock used to promote a fight now & then for a skinny young puncher from Texas named Wildcat Jenkins. Last week, sauntering along Little Rock's main street, whom should he see but the Wildcat. "H'ya Wildcat old boy," drawled Les. "Haven't seen you in years. What you doing these days?" Said Boxer Jenkins, freckled and angular as ever: "Still fighting-or haven't you heard? They call me Lew now. I'm lightweight champion of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Nonplussed, Attorney Ironside could not but be a weak apologist, based the defense on moral issues. In developing Associated, said he, Hopson had worked tirelessly for the common weal. He was a creature of the wildcat '20s, should be judged in the light of those times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hopson Guilty | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...Captain Langdon Burwell, who copped second place honors, the Mikkolamen were low with 27 points. The Indians, far out of the running finished second with 55 points to nose out the last place Wildcat runner, who scored a total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS OUTRUN INDIANS, WILDCATS, FOR THIRD SUCCESSIVE WIN OR SEASON | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

...Freshman harriers, led by captain Bill Palson, engage the Indian and Wildcat yearling teams over a short Soldiers Field course at 3:30 o'clock, while the yearling soccer eleven travels to Hanover with the Varsity for a preliminary game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Set To Win Triangle Meet Today | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

...announced his tenth discovery. Out on Bailey's Prairie, in Brazoria County, his latest gusher came in. One of the deepest low-gravity oil producers on the Coast, it was the centre of a 10,000-acre tract, all under McCarthy lease. It looked as though the Wildcat King had joined the semi-majors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Wildcat King | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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