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...last week watched a preliminary bout between two light heavyweights. One was a shaky, timid Negro, the other a slow-footed, lumbering white man with a scarred face and a flat nose. In the first round, the Negro fell without being hit, then, in the second, took a left hook on the face and was counted out. Like most cheap preliminaries, it was mediocre entertainment and the crowd booed. Unlike most cheap preliminaries, it was described at length in metropolitan sport pages, much discussed by prizefight enthusiasts. This was because the winner was Paul Berlenbach. onetime (1925-26) light heavyweight...
...last week a mighty hook-up of radio and education was revealed: a National Advisory Council on Radio Education. Organized last year, it is now backed by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and the Carnegie Corporation, who promise to finance it for the next three years. Its president is Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology; its vice president, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; its board chairman, Banker Norman H. Davis. Executive committee and active members include many a famed educator, publicist, business man, scientist. Director is Levering Tyson who has' retired as head of Columbia University...
Early Hearstian thrills became evident while the ship moored at Brooklyn. To hook the projected trip up with some-thing everyone knows, Jean Jules Verne, a staid public prosecutor of Rouen, France, imported for the occasion, was to christen Sir Hubert's submarine the Nautilus after the fantastic craft which ''Captain Nemo" sailed Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea in Prosecutor Verne's famed grandfather's imagination. Readers were allowed to believe that it was from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that...
...Springfield, Ill., Oklahoma's Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray met Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson last week. Later Governor Murray said he had said: "We have a world of moonshiners in the hills of Pushmatana County. If the oil ever plays out, we'll hook their stills to the pipe-lines...
...guards proved a severe handicap. Lately, however, the team has been successfully using the defensive tap. That is, the men have so arranged themselves that no matter which center gets the jump, they have a good chance to get possession of the ball. This opening strategy, combined with accurate hook-passing over the heads of the opposing guards, puts the Crimson within scoring range...