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Direct Credits. The man who discovered all this, Alfred William Lawson, was born in England, attended no colleges, pitched for the Goshen, Ind. ball club in 1888. His Philadelphia Fly (1909) was the first popular aeronautical magazine. He later manufactured planes in Green Bay, Wis. designed and built a 26-passenger plane, made a pioneering profit flying it around the U.S. In 1920 he got the first U.S. airmail contract. A year later a Lawson plane crashed and the Lawson plane company followed suit...
...mild-mannered, mildly good-looking, nonsmoking, teetotaling gentleman of medium size, whose most distinctive feature is a pair of startlingly blue eyes. He is a friendly family man with a bustling, buxom wife, five sons-all in uniform today-and two daughters. He works in South Bend, Ind. and spends his meager spare time at home-in the winter in a "mildly exclusive" part of South Bend; in the summer at unpretentious Lakeside, on Lake Michigan...
...month Harvard students are broke, 39 is a mystic Hindu number (like Ali Babs and the Forty Thieves, of which one was just poor but honest)., and the average allowance of students in Indic Philology 39b is 39 dollars (amazing coincidence you think?). Now who takes Ind. Phil. 39b. a snap course, why that great group of takers of snap courses, the Lampoon. There we have it. Last day, 39 dollars, Ind. Phil. 39b. 'Poon. It's plain as day. THE 'POON DID IT. That's all right, folks, don't applaud. It was elementary...
...woman began to weep. "Her name is Miss Rooney," said a friend. "She always cries." And whenever she cried a woman from South Bend, Ind., invariably followed. Soon scores of weepers had been touched off, were brusquely ordered to restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left...
...this a picture of Governmental bungling? It shows a carload and a half of potatoes dumped by the War Food Administration at the Vincennes, Ind. municipal dump. Republican Congressman Gerald Landis of Indiana charged that 37 carloads of potatoes, worth $60.000, had rotted in Vincennes' storage plants. He demanded an investigation. WFA, anxious to make a molehill out of the potato mountain, said that most of the 37 carloads in Vincennes would yet be saved, that only the carload and a half are a complete loss. Elsewhere in the nation, only 50 of 6,422 carloads of Government potatoes...