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...Bloom had the victory. Charles Kramer of Los Angeles popped up with an amendment to provide Sol Bloom not with another $150,000 but with $275,000, so that every Congressman could have 2,500 copies of Bloom on the Constitution to distribute free. A roll-call was demanded on the question and Sol Bloom fretted nervously while the "Nays" rolled up impressively. But so did the "Yeas." He got his money by a close shave...
...over, four other contestants had good cause to wish the officials had rejected it because Hock Sim Ong had beaten them with discouraging ease. In the final, with a socialite crowd of 5.000 seated around the court, Hock Sim Ong's opponent was tall, 24-year-old Walter Kramer of the Detroit Badminton Club, rated by professionals as the ablest U. S. amateur for the last two years. The first game went to Kramer, 15-10. In the second Sim Ong got a lead of 4-1, then apparently forgot all he knew about the game while his opponent...
What Walter Kramer got for winning the men's badminton championship last week was a silver cup, named for New York socialites Bayard Clarke and E. Langdon Wilks who were the original U. S. badminton pioneers in 1878. Unlike England's "Grand Old Man" of badminton, Sir George Thomas, whose achievement of winning 78 national badminton titles in the British Isles from 1903 to 1928 is rivaled only by his position as England's best chess player, they did not contribute much to the game's later triumph. Badminton's current status...
...officers are, as follows: President, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. 2L of Oakland, California; Note Editor, Sidney H. Willner 2L of Wachawken, New Jersey; Legislation Editor, James E. Day 2L of Springfield, Illinois; Case Editor, Theodore R. Colborn 2L of Rochester, New York; Book Review Editor, Robert Kramer 2L of Davenport, Iowa; and Treasurer, Robert Amory. Jr. 2L of Milton...
...Chicago, police solved the ingenious suicide of Miles Kramer, 38, unsuccessful inventor, when they discovered his last and most effective invention, a short length of lead pipe which was fixed over a gas stove flame which exploded a .38 cartridge inside the pipe, which killed Miles Kramer...