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Gilbert's vaulting career began when he pulled a cedar rail off a farmer's fence near his Idaho home, whittled it into a vaulting pole. At Yale, in 1907, he discovered the fact that bamboo poles had more spring, less chance of breaking off in a point...
When NRA needed a general counsel, Administrator Hugh Johnson thought of his old friend Donald Randall Richberg in Chicago. Temperamentally the two were poles apart but Lawyer Richberg's professional brilliance and political liberalism were the stuff General Johnson wanted. As an inducement Friend Johnson gave Friend Richberg his...
The present day is notable for a dearth of any other kind of oratory than the perniciously emotional. One has only to listen to the average political harangues, or to read the Congressional Record, to realize to what depths public speaking has sunk in America. Both our politicians, and those...
These are the two extremes of the situation which shortly will come before the Committee as the result of defeats by Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Princeton, Army, and Yale. Possibly at its meeting scheduled for December 3, but more probably later in the year, the Committee must find some solution. What...
The beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should...