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...morning last week Professor Frederick Burt Farquharson of the University of Washington arrived at the bridge as usual to make motion pictures of its gentle writhing under the wind. Soon after him came 25-year-old college student Winfield Brown, who paid his 10? pedestrian fee and walked across for the thrill. Approaching was a logging truck and an automobile driven by mild, baldish Leonard Coatsworth, reporter on the Tacoma News-Tribune. Mr. Coatsworth stopped to look at the undulations before he paid his toll. They were no worse than usual...
Professor Farquharson hurried back ashore for more film, made his way out on the stricken bridge again as Brown and Coatsworth crawled-stopping when their breath gave out-toward the Tacoma end. From the logging truck a man and woman scrambled and clawed their way to safety. Professor Farquharson discovered Reporter Coatsworth's dog in the automobile, tried to save it, found it sick and frightened, got nipped on the knuckle. Still convinced the bridge would fight it out, he got back toward shore. He watched while it buckled up at an angle of 45 degrees. Vertical steel cables...
Leaving the Bahamas (as British tradition requires) before the arrival of his successor, their retiring Governor, Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas, said of the new Governor: "I leave you now in distinguished and capable hands. . . . He is endowed with natural ability and great experience of men and affairs and exceptional knowledge of the Empire and of many foreign lands...
...tomorrow Coach Clark Hodder's aggregation has every chance of repeating its past upsets for McGILL is not the strong team which swept away the League's championship last winter. Though it still boasts some of the country's fastest and tricktest combinations, it lacks such stars as Hughie Farquharson. Ken Farmer Jack McGILL, the Crutchfield brothers, Paul Pidcock , and Russ McConnell...
...Influenza, sinusitis, respiratory inflammations, duodenal ulcers, heart disease and other ailments "respond quickly" when Osteopath Chester L. Farquharson of Houston, Tex., manipulates his patients' ribs into their proper places...