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...from nearby high schools is bidden to be entertained, inspected and secured. In Madison last week a University of Wisconsin faculty meeting weighed a way to make athletic proselytism foolproof. Instead of the old informality, argued serious 34-year-old Historian Robert Leonard Reynolds, why not organize a regular six-week institute each year? Promising athletes would spend the morning brushing up on their studies, the afternoon exhibiting their wares to the coach. Those who showed up well in both tests would be offered $400 scholarships paid by alumni subscription, renewable on good behavior. In that way, thought Historian Reynolds...
Last month hundreds of Philco employes marched across the Delaware River from Philadelphia into Camden, N. J., helped RCA employes win a six-week strike for more pay (TIME. July 27). Due in no small measure to the costs of the Camden rumpus, the earnings of RCA dropped some $200,000 below comparable 1935 figures in the second quarter...
...President Roosevelt gratefully sent him to Europe to look for possible U. S. grain markets. Said Mr. Davis then: "My job will be to size up in a realistic way just what the prospects are for American farmers to sell more of their goods." Last week, ending a six-week tour of Europe, Mr. Davis told newshawks in London: "There is not the slightest hope we can regain for some important commodities the great markets here we once enjoyed. . . . The farmers at home must continue national efforts to adjust their production to these changed conditions...
Moving pictures of every game on the schedule showed that the team made "a steady improvement" throughout the year, according to Head Coach Dick Harlow, just back from a six-week duck-shooting vacation in Maryland. The work of Bill Burton and Freddy Moseley in the Yale game was termed as "especially satisfactory...
...Lohengrin opened the 15th season of opera in the Cincinnati Zoo, a six-week schedule assured this year by anonymous donations. As usual, the audience tittered at unexpected animal sounds-a loon calling as Lohengrin arrived on the stage with his papier-mache swan; a lion roaring just as King Henry dropped his chin for a deep bass note...