Sallie's World: An Age Of Giants

The other night, I was lying awake thinking of how my Dad would say that the greatest champions of all time belonged to his generation. He actually called the leaders and celebrities of his day Giants.

My Dad always said that he was born in an age of giants . He attained his twenty first birthday in 1924. There were many great athletes , authors, and celebrities of his generation. To name a few there were :
Babe Ruth, considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time,

Ty Cobb ,"The Georgia Peach", a great and colorful outfielder. He was my Dad's favorite ball player. He had the most stolen bases and my Dad liked to relate how he would sit in the dugout eyeing the second baseman of the opposing team and sharpening his spikes.

Dizzy Dean, Baseball Pitcher for The St Louis Cardinals and later the The Chicago Cubs..His team was known as "The Gashouse Gang" " No one seems to know exactly who was the first to call that year’s Cards the "Gashouse Gang," but everyone agrees that the nickname had to do with the team’s close resemblance to the rowdy, dirt-streaked assemblage of thugs who hung around the Gashouse District on Manhattan’s East Side."

Jack Dempsey. Heavyweight Champion

Bobby Jones, Golfer

Sonja Henie, Ice Skater, Olympic Champion and Film Star

Johnny Weissmuller, Swimmer, Olympic Champion and Tarzan movies

Douglas Fairbanks, Athletic movie actor and Swashbuckling hero of adventure movies

Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford "America's Sweetheart" Were married and owned a mansion in Hollywood called "PickFair".

John Barrymore, film star "The Great Profile"

Francis X. Bushman, film star "The Great Stone face"

Rudolph Valentino, Romantic Film Star

Dorothy and Lillian Gish actresses

Charlie Chaplin, mime comedian "The Little Tramp" one of the greatest comedians of all time

Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President and World Leader during WW2

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Military Leader in WW2 and US President

General George Marshall, Military Leader in WW2 and Statesman

King George V1 of England

Winston Churchill, Statesman Led England During WW2

Joseph Stalin World Leader During WW2,The man who turned the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at unimaginable human cost.

Clarence Darrow, ACLU Leader and Defended Leopold and Loeb Teenaged Thrill Killers and Thomas Scopes ~HS Teacher

William Jennings Bryan 3 timesDemocratic Presidential Nominee and former US Secretary of State also prosecuted Scopes in the famous evolution trial. Five days after the trial he died of a heart attack.