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...Boston Braves: 4 to 1; a ballgame with the Brooklyn Robins, at Boston. The crowd was delighted by the big-league debut of a Boston-bred pitcher, 20-year-old Bob Brown, who proved far more efficient than Brooklyn's famed Arthur ("Dazzy") Vance who opposed him and allowed only five hits, was horrified by news that got out after the game was over. Not only had firstbaseman Arthur ("The Great") Shires torn a knee ligament by colliding with Thirdbaseman Stripp of Brooklyn in the ninth inning; on being hospitalized, he had found that he was also suffering from...
...many able young college-trained men. Not a few inherit their politics from famed kinfolk. Conspicuous is David Sinton Ingalls, 33, Yale 1920, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, grandnephew of the late William Howard Taft, who is now seeking to become Governor of Ohio. Robert Marion ("Bob") LaFollette, 37, fills his late father's seat in the Senate. He studied at the University of Wisconsin as did his brother Philip Fox LaFollette, 35, Governor of Wisconsin. Paul John Kvale, 36, who studied at the University of Chicago, Luther College and the University of Minnesota, succeeded his father...
...first week of enrollment over 80 candidates for the Senior life saving course have reported in the swimming pool for the tests. Registration for the course will not close until Thursday, April 21, Bob Muir, who is conducting the work, announced yesterday...
Smart is King George's youngest son Prince George. He thought up in his schooldays a way to outwit Queen Mary. She gave him only four shillings a week pocket money, exacted his word of honor not to borrow. Honorable, he priced his own autograph at two bob (shillings), sold as many as he could, clipped his father's autographs out of letters, priced and sold them for a quid (pound), but his mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers...
Like a proud, fussy host, President Robert Maynard ("Bob'') Hutchins of the University of Chicago settled a batch of students in his new "College" last autumn (TIME, Sept. 21). Ever since, the College has much resembled a high-brow houseparty. You work as you go, study or roister as you please, plan to get a College certificate in two years or so, then do specialized work in one of the ''Divisions." Last week Host Hutchins gave his guests a try at a new, exciting party game: Examinations. The new Board of Examinations, after lengthy studies, issued a set of questions?...