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HARVARD YALE Farrell, r.f. l.f., Horwitz Pattison, l.f. r.f., Booth Rauh, c. c., Patterson Huppuch, r.g. l.g., Linehan Moushegian, l.g. r.g., McGowan...
...fouls for a total of 106 points, while G. H. Pattison '32, forward, and C. H. Hageman '33 follow him in total number of points scored. The captain and leading scorer of the Yale team is Edward Horwitz, left forward, while the right forward being A. J. Booth of gridiron fame. The left guard will be F. J. Linehan, who also played on the Yale football team, where he held the position of guard...
...Unknown God. Or it may merely indicate that Anything Goes. But most curious is the fact that Fort has a following of some note, who have formed a Fortean Society to praise his name. Publisher Kendall's jacket blurb is enthusiastically contributed to by Authors Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, John Cowper Powys, Ben Hecht (who announced himself "the first disciple of Charles Fort"). Manhattan's conservative Herald Tribune is quoted as calling Fort "that amazing genius...
...Last week in Manhattan a group of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Harry Elmer Barnes, Ben Hecht, Booth Tarkington, Edgar Lee Masters, John Cowper Powys, Tiffany Thayer, Harry Leon Wilson), formed a Fortean Society to create wider interest in the work of Charles Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands (out of print), Lo! (Claude Kendall, Publisher). For 26 years Author Fort has collected phenomena which Science has been unable to explain. He & his friends believe that modern knowledge must be freed of the prejudices of Science...
...Booth Tarkington, totally blind since last August (TIME, Sept. 22), told reporters who visited him following an operation by Dr. William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore: "The most important thing I can tell you is that I will be able to see again! At present the picture is a smudge, but I can distinguish color and form...