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The Story Of A Giant From Another Era!

as published from Olean Times Hearld in 1973. By Mike Abdo This a story Chuck Ward or Chuck Pollock should be doing, something that is right up their talented literay alley. . . but they were only "So High" when it happened.   It's a story that Bob Daviex can't do because he wasn't traveling in this circle...so, it's one that I'll have to tell.   Not that it's a chore - far from it, considering the memories - but there will have to be a number of read-it-between - the -lines areas for you and, of necessity only a few will be named.   It's the Jack Hord story ... the story of Jack Hord as I know him from the mid 1930s and on. The complete Jack Hord story would require a number of other chronicles who could travel back further, to the Prohibition era, to World War I and before that.    JACK HORD - the fellow that an old boss of mine, John Morton, use to call "Jason" and "the Lord of the Manor" - came to the end of life's ...