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...Coolidge. Then for three precarious minutes the thread of Fred Snite's life was unknotted. That was the length of time it took attendants to take him out of his old respirator, carry him on a stretcher aboard the President Coolidge and insert him in another respirator. The shift was made without a hitch and Fred Snite Jr. sailed for the U. S. prostrate but undismayed. Installed in a twelve-room suite for his parents and medical retinue headed by Harvard-trained Dr. Claude Ellis Dorkner of Peiping, Fred B. Snite thus last week sailed for Chicago, hoping...
...towers will lean several feet, the two 36½-in. cables will lengthen 16 ft. Greatest stress of all that the bridge may have to meet is an earthquake. Only six miles away and parallel to the Golden Gate Bridge is the San Andreas Fault, whose 22-ft. shift in 1906 leveled San Francisco. The question which has agitated Californians more than any other is: What will happen to the Bridge if another 'quake comes...
...shorter drives were 304 yd. 31 in., 302 yd 7 in. In addition to his prize for the longest single drive, he got $150 for the best total distance - 920 yd. 19 in. Snead weighs 170 lb., uses a full swing and beautifully balanced body shift, usually hits a low, long-rolling ball with a slight hook. Second prizes went to Bruce Coltart of Philadelphia, for an aggregate of 890 yd. 34 in., Horton Smith of Oak Park, Ill. for a drive...
...Cole, director of the hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, reached the age of 65-time for a major Rockefeller Institute executive to retire. The Institute had Dr. Cole's successor, Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers, 48, who had worked there for 15 years, all ready. The shift was formally announced last week...
...Some provision in a college must be made for both. In Physics, a Plan A and Plan B tutorial system might save the situation, as the sparse rays of tutorial instruction on the group I and II men could be focussed, and the less intelligent or less conscientious could shift for themselves...