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The 1923 baseball season was a great one for the New York Yankees -- Yankee Stadium opened up and the team won the 1923 World Series. Cy Williams topped the National League in homers, and Babe Ruth was selected as the American League's MVP.
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Safety Last (1923) earned Harold Lloyd, the bookish, horn-rimmed glasses, straw-hat-wearing comedian and Everyman hero, his nickname "the King of Daredevil Comedy." Lloyd's films of this period often included timeless gags, pathos, and clever visual elements. The film was directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, and produced by Hal Roach. Other Lloyd films that featured the same character included Girl Shy (1924), The Freshman (1925) - his most successful film, For Heaven's Sake (1926), and The Kid Brother (1927) - often considered his best film.
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Puente, a dirt-poor Puerto Rican-American, was born in 1923 in New York's Spanish Harlem. As a young boy, he dreamed of becoming a dancer like Fred Astaire; ... an ankle injury gave him the opportunity to explore his musical talents. At 14, Puente won the Benny Goodman-Gene Krupa drum contest. He soon discovered the intoxicating sound of Cuban music, and at 17 he joined the Machito Orchestra, becoming proficient in the Cuban timbale drums.
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Robert M. Lord of the Illinois Athletic Club, Chicago, won the national amateur three-cushion billiard championship of the United States in a tournament held in Brooklyn, N.Y., and ending March 31, 1923. In the last game of the final round, he defeated Allen V. Ryan of the Amateur Billiard Club of New York city by a score of 50 to 41 in eighty-five innings. The standing of of the players in the final round was: R.M. Lord 3/0; A.V. Ryan 2/1; Charles Hanf 0/2; H.L. Turk 0/2.
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Crisco began radio advertisements in 1923 with the advent of commercial broadcasts. The first Crisco radio advertisement ran on WEAF in New York. P&G, along with many other food companies, recognized that cooking shows were an excellent way to market their products. As a result, radio programs featuring Crisco recipes were produced.
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Tiff Denton of Kansas City won the 1923 national professional championship of the National Championship Three-Cushion Billiard league at Philadelphia, PA. Sept. 29. His opponents in the series, which began in St. Louis, were Arthur Reiselt, Philadelphia; John Layton, St. Louis, and Robert Cannefax of New York. The final standing was: Denton 8/4; Reiselt 7/5; Layton 7/5; Cannefax 2/10.
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