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...After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles he: "I've been hurrying ever since." Dane Knudsen's first U. S. job was in a Morris Heights, N. Y. shipyard, as reamer and riveter at $1.75 per day. Evenings he spent in his boarding house, improving his English by listening to the landlady's children. When the shipyard shut down for the winter, he moved...
...month marked a momentary lull in La Follette Progressivism in Wisconsin. Republican John J. Elaine was Governor, old "Bob" was dead after running a poor third for President the year before, "Young Bob" was being eased into his father's Senate seat, Brother Philip was district attorney of Dane county. Old Bob had peered amiably on occasion into the University but when the Republican and Progressive regents got together to elect Editor Frank, then an eloquent young Republican liberal of 37, no La Follette raised a hand to interfere. Next year Phil La Follette was appointed a lecturer...
DEATH VALLEY PROSPECTORS-Dane Coolidge-Dutton...
Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...
When he died he left instructions to be buried near a famed Death Valley pioneer, with this epitaph: "Here Lies Shorty Harris, A Single Blanket Jackass Prospector." The Author- Unlike most authors of Western stories, Dane Coolidge knows the region he has written of in such romances as Snake Bit Jones, Rawhide Johnny, Gun Smoke, some 30 other books. Born in Natick, Mass, in 1873, he was taken to California in 1877, entered Stanford at the age of 21, with a job as field collector working on mammals and reptiles. Since then he has collected live animals...