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Those who established the present faculty rule in regard to the time of starting of football games no doubt had a laudable purpose in view; but their concern for the academic and digestive well-being of students rather overshot its mark and struck with acute discomfort at the other end. The shades of dusk form pretty enough material for the sentimental moments in hard, slashing football stories, but for the spectators, they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players...
...medical degree, he is a triple specialist - exodontia (tooth-pulling), roentgenology (xray) and oral surgery. His dental constituents admire him for being on the staff of four Nashville hospitals, for working in his office 10 to 15 hours daily, for reading no books or magazines except those which "concern my work," for having "no time for civic interests or detective stories...
Last week came the Silver Jubilee (25 years) of the Fox Theatres, announced by lavish two-page newspaper advertisements that told of gala performances, mysteriously adding: "Far more important than even the entertainment, will be a message from William Fox of vital concern to the future welfare of every patron of Fox theatres...
...representing the American League. The other was the Chicago Cubs, representing the National League. As everyone knows, Mr. Wrigley is Cub owner. The millions of U. S. citizens who, through radio and newspaper, hung upon the flash of every ball, the crack of every bat, probably did not much concern themselves with the corporate aspects of the entertainment provided them. Nor, in justice to Mr. Wrigley, could it be said that his connection with baseball was sordidly commercial. The Chicago baseball franchise was no pearl of great price when Mr. Wrigley purchased it, and as recently as 1925 the club...
...back to 1913 when at the age of 24 he became a salesman in the Atlanta office. Previous Woodruff occupations had included being an apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...