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February 12, 1927

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Featured Pick

a reporter at large

Green Baize.

Morris Markey

REPORTER AT LARGE about billiard match between Willie Hoppe and Hagenlacher, at Hoppe's Billiard Academy.

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profiles

“Vincent”

Griffin Barry

fiction

"You Make the Best Time Up Fifth" "A Defense of Cab Drivers"

Lois Long