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...Clay Williams first went up from North Carolina to deal with the New Deal on behalf of the tobacco business. He was a powerfully-formed, slow-spoken man of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Iredell County, part of Representative Bob Doughton's Congressional district. As a young lawyer he was picked by the late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does...
Sprinting his way out in front as the last laps of the mile-and-one-half began, Bob Playfair, distance star of Eddie Farrell's track team, broke the tape for that event in the time of 7.24, Jack Scheu, whose record breaking run on Saturday night won the University Club mile for Harvard, finished second, a few yards behind, and Charlie Woodard placed third...
...knockouts by the Army clinched its victory over the Crimson. Varsity boxers on Saturday, when it rolled up a total of 6 1-2 points to 1 1-2. In the heavyweight class, Bob Stillman, cadet football guard, dropped Henry Lloyd in 19 seconds of the second round, while 145-pound Connor scored a technical knockout when John Brassil was with drawn from the first round of the match with a cut over...
...entrants, the annual University Handicap Track Meet will get under way on Monday at Soldiers Field when the hurdles event starts off a two-day program. Many of the stars of the 1934 meet will be back for this winter's competition, with such men as Dick Brayton and Bob Playfair standing a strong chance of repeating their victories of a year...
...charge of the Carnegie Pool, where he taught himself to coach swimmers by watching them swim. He promptly adopted a radical method to improve the physical condition of his squad: gymnasium exercises, which most coaches then thought made swimmers musclebound. Stocky, shock-haired, absorbed in his vocation, Bob Kiphuth found himself recognized as the ablest U. S. swimming coach when he was chosen to train the 1928 U. S. Olympic team. In 1932, functioning in the same capacity, he was libeled by Cartoonist Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley who magnified the fact that Kiphuth was never on a swimming...