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...later married) Student Marion Isabel Watrous of Des Moines, Iowa. By the time President McKinley borrowed Michigan's president to be his Minister to Turkey, Son James Rowland was already an up-&-coming psychologist at Chicago, starting the career that was to lead him to one of the half-dozen great academic seats of the nation...
These and other reflections, included in a volume which sells 100,000 copies at $6 apiece, emerge as regularly as the dogwood each spring from No. n Beacon Street, Boston. At that address is located Porter Sargent's crowded little office. There he, with an assistant and a half-dozen stenographers, besides publishing Private Schools, personally tells parents where to find schools, teachers where to find work, trustees where to find headmasters. He also places school advertising in magazines as well as in the rear of his yearly handbook...
Though nobody now considers it a sport for effeminate weaklings, U. S. fencing has produced surprisingly few top-notch masculine performers. For the past few years a half-dozen men have held a virtual monopoly on U. S. fencing titles. Last week in Manhattan a small clique of enthusiasts watched three of these men parry & thrust their way once more to national amateur championships...
...Haselwood, 44. started out as a Northwest farmer and lumberjack, bought a Ford in 1916, put it in tip-top shape, ran a one-man, one-car busline. After two years he sold out, drove for a half-dozen bus companies. Since 1929 he has driven for Omaha's Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 21g-mile run between North Platte. Neb. and Cheyenne. Wyo.. one way or the other, six days a week. When passing an oncoming car he sights the road edge over his radiator cap. gets his right-hand tires on the brink...
...dozen-odd playoff games are the only really significant ones of the year. In them the half-dozen leading teams battle for possession of the world's championship Stanley Cup. The Brobdingnagian encounter between Maroons and Red Wings last week was the first of a three-out-of-five series between the group leaders. The Red Wings-ablest team in the League on their pre-playoff record, built around a crack forward line (Larry Aurie, Herb Lewis, Marty Barry) which scored no points during the season-won the second game, 3-to-0 and the third, in Detroit...