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...headline situa tions. Not altogether undeserved was his arrest as a vagrant. During the campaign he has traveled 26,000 miles, mostly in day coaches, shuttling about the country, visiting 26 States. Last week, while Negro James W. Ford, Communist Vice-Presidential Nominee, was hopping about to Nashville, Richmond, Durham, Harlem, Earl Browder decided to play return engagements at his two most successful stands. Of his first visit to Terre Haute he said: "That speech ... I didn't get to make . . . was the most successful I ever made in my life." Back to that Indiana city therefore went...
First tobacco Duke to betray an interest in higher education was old Washington ("Wash") Duke who in 1891 gave $100,000 in cigaret stocks to little Trinity College in Durham, N. C., when that Methodist institution was crusading against the weed he sold. Since then "Wash" Duke's progeny have made Trinity into a fabulously rich educational duchy. Late Son James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only...
...graduated cum lande in 1915 to be killed in the British Army during the War. Last week his son, Peter Harvard, 19, was imported for the Tercentenary. This youngster took no active part in the exercises, was shunted quietly about as an interesting historical exhibit. Peter is enrolled at Durham Engineering School, where he will probably remain...
Peter is now a second year student in Armstrong College, Durham University, and will return there directly. He is concentrating in pure science, and now plans to take a few post-graduate courses in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences when he gets his degree. From early childhood, he has been mechanically minded, and hopes to devote his life to research in physics and chemistry...
...Durham, N. C.'s Duke Hospital, Surgeon-in-Chief Julian Deryl Hart last week braced himself to answer a barrage of questions excited by a report in Modern Hospital concerning novel use of ultraviolet light as an antiseptic agent in operating rooms. Over his operating table Dr. Hart had rigged a grid of light tubes which project an invisible light which within five minutes effectively kills almost all germs within a radius of five feet...