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10 picks · 1931–1953

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WITH THE MEAT IN THIER MOUTH.
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PROFILE of John Cordes, a retired police detective, the only man in the Dept.s history ever to win its Medal of Honor twice. Cordes was born on Hudson St. …

PERSIAN GULF COMMAND III-The Whirling Men,
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Major General Donald H. Connolly's Persian Gulf Command. Origin of the name Persia, history, culture, the zir khaneh or …

Vanishing American
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PROFILE of Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Beard is the author of "The American Boy's Handy Book"; "How To Camp Without …

The Pullman Theseus
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Profile of Jim Londos, Greek wrestler and world champion. On night of November 17, 1931, Londos threw Garibaldi in forty-six minutes and forty seconds. The…

Compleat Angler
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Profile of James Joy Johnston, boxing promoter who was appointed as assistant to the president of the Madison Square Garden, William F. Carey and its …

Wham! Pow! Zowie!
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Profile of John J. Broderick, Shield No. 226 who, although he has just turned thirty-seven and earns only four thousand a year is well known up and down …

The Mantle of Rockne
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Profile of Chick Meehan, the new football coach at N.Y.U. Tells something about his beliefs. He tells people frankly the reason that he has chosen football…

Big Shot-at
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Profile of Jack "Legs" Diamond, one of the most notorious gangsters of the world, and his methods in crime. After Rothstein's death, the gang of …