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...Lamson murder case threw the Stanford campus and the sedate town of Palo Alto into frenzied gossip and wild surmise. The dead woman had been a popular Stanford co-ed before she married David A. Lamson, 31-year-old sales manager of the Stanford University Press. They were campus socialites, neighbors of Theodore Jesse Hoover, dean of Stan- ford's engineering school and Coolidgesque brother of the ex-President (see cut). Dr. Blake Colburn Wilbur, son of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, was their close friend, best man at their wedding. Who could have killed Mrs. Lamson...
...Kansas City under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee. After listening to speeches by Postmaster General Farley, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Missouri's Governor Park and Indiana's Governor McNutt, they revolted against prepared addresses by their elders, limited them to ten minutes each. Likewise they threw off the national committee's yoke to pick their own officers for the Young Democratic Clubs of America...
...Pacific Coast, coached by Howard Jones of the University of Southern California, with seven of his last year's team in the lineup; 13 to 7, largely because of a brilliant performance by Michigan's Harry Newman, who returned punts for a total of 84 yd., threw a short pass to Ronzani of Marquette for the winning touchdown; under floodlights, in Soldier Field, Chicago. ¶Cecil Smith, famed cowboy poloist: the case brought against him by Nurse Eugenia Rose of the Evanston, Ill. Hospital, who accused him of raping her in a ravine; when she withdrew her charges...
...year-old, Equipoise, sired by Pennant out of Swinging, was a scrawny, excitable horse, brilliant but undependable. He threw his jockey, Sonny Workman, who rode him last week, in his first start. He fell in the Pimlico Futurity. The next season, after being a winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, he ran badly in the Preakness, developed a blind quarter crack (hidden bruise) that made it look as though he might never run again. Last year, heavier (1,080 lb.), more composed, he lived up to his promise by winning ten of his 14 starts, setting a world...
Cried Dr. Maier: "Without Luther there could have been no Washington. . . . While [Lincoln] dealt with bodies in bondage and minds coerced by mental slavery, Luther threw off the shackles of that damnable spiritual tyranny that pressed human souls of all colors and races into the strait jacket of abject terror that cringes before the distressing spectres of an outraged conscience and shudders before the thought of God and eternity. . . . All Protestantism, yea, Roman Catholicism itself, as its eminent scholars have admitted, not only owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude but also needs the restatement of many of his principles...