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It was February off the Banks, and so thick was the
weather that, on the upper decks, one could have driven
a sleigh. Inside the smoking-room Austin Ford,
as securely sheltered from the blizza...
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The American journalist Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was also a fiction writer and dramatist whose swashbuckling adventures were popular with the American public.Richard Harding Davis was born in...
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Richard Harding Davis is principally remembered as a popular romancer of the 1890s and early 1900s. The bulk of his writing was designed to please and titillate the popular readership, and, until his ...
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Richard Harding Davis was one of the most colorful, daring, and attractive figures in journalism in the late 1800s and early 1900s; he was also highly competent, honest, and dependable. Because of his...
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Richard Harding Davis once said that "There is no training for a novelist as thorough as that received in the local room of a daily newspaper." Davis served just such an apprenticeship at newspapers i...
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Richard Harding Davis, managing editor of Harper's Weekly from 1890 to 1893 and for all his writing career a steady contributor to the evolving literature of the American magazine, was the first nativ...
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Richard Harding Davis may be better remembered in late-twentieth-century America for being the son of novelist Rebecca Harding Davis than he is for his own literary accomplishments. In late-nineteenth...
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Nippon Professional Baseball decided Wednesday to abolish this
year the so-called ''kibo-waku'' system, which allows notable amateur
players to designate professional teams they wish to join ...
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The first of the World Photography Awards, sponsored by Sony
Corp., was launched in London on Tuesday as an international showcase
of the best images taken by both amateur and professional
p...
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Planegg, Germany (dpa) - The German Skiing Federation DSV denied
Friday news reports of an upsurge in winter sports accidents in the
Alps this season.
Mountai...
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This week only: Mortgage rates fall and purchase mortgage volume at record high. Act now; numbers might change. (The Matrix)
Boost your confidence with color-balanced bulbs in the bathroom, othe...
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The Yokohama BayStars became the latest professional club to
become embroiled in a scandal over scouting amateur players when it
admitted Wednesday it paid pitcher Takumi Nasu...
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A special committee set up to investigate the Seibu Lions'
scouting scandal has finished its activities, reporting no new
improper money deals.
The committ...
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IBM engineer Viktors Berstis can thank his mother for his piano playing talent.Berstis, who was born at a Latvian refugee camp near Nurnberg, Germany, was just 10 months old when his family moved t...
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The Japanese baseball commissioner has stripped the Seibu Lions
of part of the rights to pick high school players in this year's
amateur draft and fined the Pacific League club 30 million yen...
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The Japanese baseball commissioner has stripped the Seibu Lions
of part of the rights to pick high school players in this year's
amateur draft and fined the Pac...
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Taipei (dpa) - A total of 17 teams from around the world gathered
in Taipei Monday for the 29th William Jones Cup Basketball
Tournament.
The teams will play t...
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