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...afternoon workout was long and arduous, for the Jayvees preceded the Freshmen into the Varsity field and drilled the regulars on pass defense. The scrubs tossed aerials for 20 minutes and then the Varsity was sent through the usual fundamentals, which included passing punting and line contact work, Jack, Riley, star tackle of the Boston Redskins and former All-American tackle at Northwestern, was among the distinguished visitors and helped out the Varsity tackles on some of the finer points of the game...
...summary: HARVARD FITCHBURG England, g. g., Spring Wemple (captain), r.f.b. l.f.b., Haggerty Gummere, l.f.b. r.f.b., Teittinen Morrill, Kingsley, r.h.b. l.h.b., Robertson Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hammond Vincent, l.h.b. r.h.b., Riley, MacDonald Grover, Willetts, r.o.f. l.o.f., Naumnik, Stencivach Clos, r.i.f. l.i.f., Johnson Manheimer, c. c., Steeves Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Southworth Robbins, Manheimer, l.o.f. r.o.f., Ponte...
...President found time to complete the reorganization of his Latin American diplomatic corps. As Minister to Paraguay he appointed Indiana's Author Meredith Nicholson, 67. Member of the Hoosier State's famed literary group (George Ade, Booth Tarkington, the late George Barr McCutcheon, the late James Whitcomb Riley), Author Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men) began in politics by fighting the Ku Klux Klan. He was elected Indianapolis city councilman, worked hard for a city manager plan. Though passionately fond of oratory, he has been not an outdoor but an indoor politician...
With the transitional remark, "Why, it seems only yesterday . . ." tycoon and satellite become James Whitcomb Riley boys in a swimming hole. Then, "in no time at all he was president of the road," bullying the directors of Chicago & South Western Railway into buying a little road for spite. Then a flashback to his first trackwalking days, his courtship of prim, big-eyed Sally (Colleen Moore). Then a flash forward to his troubles with his spoiled collegian son at whose angry look he says, "Don't look at me that way, boy. You're giving away too much weight...
When last week's nudity rumpus cast general suspicion on all the Fair's rowdy, stay-up-late activity, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, the hard-bitten onetime soldier whom the Brothers Dawes made the Fair's general manager (TIME, May 22), enacted a 1:30 curfew. On none of the three following nights was any patron of the hot spots evicted before 3 a. m.. The concessionaires complained that the only chance they had to make hay was while the stars shone. To them, President Rufus Cutler Dawes replied...