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...scholarships announced today went to John E. Crane, of 18 North Thirteenth Street, Richmond, Ind., Morton High School, Richmond; Paul J. Haldeman, of 406 Melville Street, St. Louis, Mo., University City High School; Edwin Hewitt, of 5016 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Ill., Leelanau School, Glen Arbor, Mich.; Robert S. Hoyt, of 3568 North Cramer Street, Milwaukee, Wis., Shorewood High School, Milwaukee; John A. Lahmer, of 7104 Amherst, St. Louis, Mo., University City Senior High School...
...hour struck for Nominee Landon to march back onto the front page. At Denver was assembled a very special train of nine cars, the last of which was named David Livingstone, after the eminent missionary-explorer who disappeared for five years in Africa, to be found by Journalist Henry Morton ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume") Stanley. Reserved for the Republican nominee, this private Pullman was equipped with microphones, loudspeakers, floodlights for rear platform campaigning...
Smoothest oration of the meeting came from stocky, aggressive Historian Louis Morton Hacker. Slickly observed he: "The Daughters of the American Revolution are the most dangerous enemies of the free schools in America. It is time these busybodies were told what their ancestors fought for. . . . Many of the members of the D. A. R. of today, had they been alive in 1776, would have been Tories. . . . The American Revolution of 1776 was a popular uprising of the workers, and the labor unions of today are the true inheritors of this tradition...
...Startling innovations by Edward VIII last week were appointment to the Royal Household of an osteopath and an aviator. Officially styled "Manipulative Surgeon to His Majesty," muscular and dynamic Sir Morton Smart has been for 16 years his royal master's chief rubdown man, recently boasted to a Parliamentary commission that nine jockeys who rode in the last Grand National Steeplechase are his patients, including the winner. Cracked Orthopedic Surgeon Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart of the British Medical Association last week: "Osteopathy is brute force-an ignorant American stunt...
...Florida Derby in record time, then, odds-on favorite, he ran second in the Kentucky Derby and the Withers. His admirers excused his failures to win by the fact that he was jostled at the start of both races. Winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness was Morton L. Schwartz's Bold Venture. Bold Venture last fortnight retired for the season with a bowed tendon. No favorite of fortune has been Granville. In the confusion at the start of the Kentucky Derby, William Woodward's bay colt lost his jockey. As though this were not hard luck...