Word: houston
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...meeting has been called by H. W. Clark '23. Assistant Director of Athletic at Harvard and Chairman of the Committee of the New England Conference on the selection of basketball officials. The other members of this committee include Messrs Houston of Tufts and Gore of Massachusetts Agricultural College...
Well, now that General Jake Wolters has, as he states, "Cleaned up Borger" (TIME, Nov. 4) it might be pertinent to ask that being so experienced he try his hand on his own home town, Houston, with a public record of more automobile accidents than any town in the United
South: Louisiana College v. Louisiana Tech at Pineville; North Carolina State v. South Carolina at Raleigh; Rice v. Baylor at Houston; Texas Christian v. Southern Methodist at Fort Worth...
Last week Borger was cleaned up. General Wolters, satisfied, left for Houston and his law practice. Said he: "Well, we finished the job at Borger. The Sheriff, the Mayor, the City Commissioners, the Justice of the Peace and the Constables resigned, and for good measure we took the resignation of an involved member of the legislature. . . . With the new officials whom we installed . . . Hutchinson County will be the tamest county in Texas. It was a great...
...Ringling for advice. Mr. Ringling condemned Black Diamond to death. The keepers tried to feed him poisoned oranges but he was wary. They considered drowning him. Finally they took him. shackled between three other elephants- to a cotton field, chained him to two trees. Hans Nagel, keeper of the Houston Zoo, was elected executioner. He approached to close range, raised a big-game rifle, fired. Black Diamond howled, tried to jerk away. Nagel fired again, could not penetrate the elephant's skull.* While the monster wildly trumpeted and twisted, Nagel kept on firing, exhausted all his ammunition. He asked...