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Aviation Cadet Vinson Wieser was lost on a cross-country night flight. He had only a half-hour of gasoline in his tanks. He headed his plane for the brightest spot he could...
...bright spot was the stadium of the College of the Pacific, where a football game was going full blast. For nearly half an hour, Cadet Wieser crisscrossed the gridiron, waggled his wings like a light-drunken moth, hoping that somebody would understand, clear the field so that he could land. The spectators were fascinated but the players paid no attention. Then things happened fast. He 1) knocked the chimney off a house, 2) tore down a high-tension line and put the stadium lights out, 3) ran out of gas. Landing willy-nilly, he headed for a crowded parking...
...that, Chicago's honest Dr. Rudolph Wieser Holmes, 66, stood up to declare: "I was the man who first brought scopolamine to this country. I wish to God I hadn't done it! I didn't know what I was doing. I have seen hundreds of women die on the delivery table because of the wrongful use of drugs. The Utopia when physicians have a drug that is safe for both mother and child will come. But it will take a long time...
...Litchfield '99, of New York; E. P. Merritt '82, of Boston; D. W. Robinson '90, of New York; Miss K. A. Sargent, of New York; Colonel A. A. Sprague '97, of Chicago; Mrs. F. G. Thomson, of Pennsylvania; E. H. Wells '97, of New York; E. A. Wieser '28, of New York; and one anonymous donor
...following officers for 1927-1928 were elected at Monday night's meeting; Honorary President, Professor F. G. Peabody '69; Chairman, E. H. L. Sexton '25; Clerk, C. H. Pforzheimer, Jr '28; Treasurer, D. H. Gordon '25; Typographer, E. A. Wieser...