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...waterfront barkeep in Texas City, Tex., Jimmy Wedell got no further in school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
...dominate and have their will over the weaker." Some specific accusations of code evils: Most hotels and many contractors use Grade B, slightly damaged plumbing fixtures, a large part of small manufacturers' output. Under the plumbing fixture code, dominated by three leading companies. Grade B products can now be sold only for export. Smalltime lead-pencil makers generally retail their product under 5?. Most popular color for lead-pencils is yellow. Big pencil manufacturers inserted in their code a provision prohibiting the manufacture of yellow pencils to be sold below 5?. All coffee roasters insert "filler" into their packaged...
...this latter case the fans will watch the unusual sight of a duel between two Grade. A pitcher-captains. Both Parker and Loughlin have seen carrying about 75 per cent of the pitching burden on their respective outfits this season and both are quite a stretch ahead of the No. 2 men, their understudies. Bernard Rankin, a Sophomore will probably be Parker's alternate...
...they do that Harvard's sunk. Mitchell's laddies haven't looked like a pennant winner most of this season, and this is going to be a pretty tough assignment. The Green is in somewhat the same boat as Harvard. Both teams have only one Grade A experienced pitcher. Here at Cambridge it's Captain Eddie Loughlin; up at Hanover it's Bob Miller, the fellow who took both halves of a doubleheader from Pennsylvania last week. With Miller carrying most of the assignment Dartmouth has turned in a dangerous record lately. Outside the League they've taken colleges like...
...volume is being put out by the Andover Press, as is also the 1937 Freshman Red Book, but is printed on a better grade of paper than the latter. It is dedicated to President Conant...