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...Eastern industrialists. So did her horse-drawn buckboard with its "Nellie's Boarding House" sign. Nevertheless, as she rode along Palm Canyon Drive with her two middle-aged sons by her side, the towns people lined the street to wave. They were well aware that without Nellie Coffman the town might not have been what it is today...
...here!" The watchman obliged. In Kansas City, a young man who stole a truck explained to police that he had to, because the tires he had stolen a few minutes before were too heavy to carry. In Topeka, somebody stole all the buttons off Frank Coffman's closetful of clothes. In Seattle, William B. Morris admitted he had been stealing jewelry and decorating trees with...
...university (first: California), is a vigorous, booming educational service station like Ohio State (TIME, Jan. 22). Many of its 15,000-odd students are poor and doggedly hardworking. To build them a worthy social centre was an ambition of Minnesota's late great President Lotus Delta Coffman. Last fortnight Minnesota's students, faculty and alumni (aided by PWA) made his wish a fact, dedicated the $1,850,000 Coffman Memorial Union on the Mississippi's bluffs. Last week, Minnesota's boys and girls tramped over its thick red carpets, sprawled in its purple and cream chairs...
...calibre championship (with service rifle at all distances and all positions) attracts the largest entry. In a field of 1,705, shooting from 200 to 1,000 yards (prone, kneeling, standing), Sergeant William J. Coffman (U. S. Infantry) of Camp Ord, Calif, shot the sharpest: 289 out of a possible...
...whit abashed by Robert Hutchins' pained protest that all this activity has nothing to do with education, Ohio State's Vice President Morrill likes to quote University of Minnesota's late, great President Lotus D. Coffman: "The State universities hold that there is no intellectual service too undignified for them to perform...