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...Sprinter Jesse Owens; in 1935 it was Boxer Joe Louis. Last week the 60 U. S. sportswriters from whom the Associated Press culls the annual vote chose Iowa Footballer Nile Kinnick as the outstanding athlete of 1939. Because of his stamina (he played the full 60 minutes against such teeth-rattling opponents as Minnesota, Notre Dame, Michigan, Purdue, Indiana, Wisconsin) as well as his talents as passer, punter and ballcarrier, Hawkeye Kinnick received 21 first-place votes, three second-place, ten third-place-a total of 79 points. Nosed out was Baseballer Joe Di Maggio, with a total...
Irwin Hoffman's brothers are mining engineers. Irwin Hoffman himself is a solid, soft-voiced artist who goes down a mine shaft almost as often as they do. Once there, he sits cramped in a lantern-lighted hole full of the din of drilling, sketches everything he sees. Mining engineers admire his sombre, accurate pictures, in 1936 invited him to join the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Last week laymen too had their chance to admire, for Artist Hoffman's first show since 1935 opened in Manhattan at the Associated American Artists' Galleries. One admirer...
...year is first quarter of the auto model year, a time when auto manufacturers justifiably overproduce in order to stock dealers. Overproduction of 200,000 cars would average less than five cars apiece for each of U. S.'s 41,698 dealers. Beginning of autumn, production ran at full blast. Last week it assembled 117,805 cars (against 102,905 last year). But Chrysler Corp., after its 54-day strike, has still to fill accumulated orders and stock its dealers. This may help sustain auto assemblies, regardless of January-April retail auto sales-and auto assemblies count...
...Marshall, Mo., letters deluged a 52-year-old plumber and minister. His full name: Santa Claus...
...full-fledged editor at 18, Daniels became, during his twenties, one of the most talented and unpurchasable of Southern journalists, fought for virtually every (safely Democratic) advance in sight in the raw, nascent 80's-from free schools, coeducation, a Railroad Commission, to Prohibition (decades before its time) and "white supremacy...