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Flailing away with both hands, up and down the corn rows the farmers went as fast as they could go, each well-trained team of horses leading in front without direction, each tough cornstalk a fight. After 80 min. a gun boomed. Swiftly the judges weighed the yield. Ray Hanson of Cottonwood County, Minn, had the biggest load but he did not win. Competitive cornhusking has its intricacies. For every pound of marketable corn that the gleaners find left in the field the husker is penalized three pounds, for every ounce over five ounces of silks and shucks...
...anyone except Notre Dame, was outrushed by Carnegie Tech but held time & again, to win 7 to 6 after Right Tackle Tully had blocked the try-for-point that would have tied. In Manhattan, Army's beautifully timed interference cut down Illinois tacklers like a mowing machine and Ray Stecker ran behind the blades of the machine for two touchdowns. Army 13, Illinois o. Ranking next to Pittsburgh, since they showed better against Yale than Army did, although both games were ties, Dart mouth had a 43 to 14 warmup against little Allegheny. Colgate's Fullback Macaluso, All-American prospect...
...could stand some severe editing and in certain of the numbers better direction would add a distinction which is lacking. But there is plenty of good music (notably: "Blue Again," "Ex-Gigolo"), most of which is sung by personable Evelyn Hoey (Fifty Million Frenchmen). Flashiest dancer is smiling Jimmy Ray, who fidgets and tapdances gracefully and silently. There is also a dramatized fable called "The Jackdaw of Rheims" in which the jackdaw is a midget toedancer. Lulu McConnell was born in Kansas City, Mo. - how many years ago she is unwilling to divulge. She worked with a local stock company...
...Hoover: 1) they dealt with Oil, that horrid substance which so blackened the Harding Administration; 2) they appeared in the World, of all newspapers the one whose good or bad opinions can touch Mr. Hoover most sharply; 3) they impugned his favorite Cabinet officer, his old friend Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur...
...size was a new trust company. To form it, Northwestern Trust Co. and Merchants Trust Co. merged and became First Trust Co. President of Northwestern was E. P. Davis, last active banking executive who was identified with late great Railroad Building James Jerome Hill. He will retire, Philip L. Ray will head the new trust company...