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...days when motoring was a major U. S. sport, its No. 1 event was the Vanderbilt Cup race-ten laps over 28 miles of Long Island's tortuous dirt roads. Last week at Westbury, L. I., the Vanderbilt Cup race was revived, with a new prize, a new course and 45 bright little racers that smelled like castor oil and sounded like machine guns...
...kindly President's company, for he deserted her in order to attend his mother's 82nd birthday party at Hyde Park. Here all week in squirely fashion he entertained such notables as Winfield and Maria Jeritza Sheehan; Joseph E. Davies and Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary Wallace; Edward A. O'Neal of the Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Winant of the Social Security Board; Charles Gay of the New York Stock Exchange; Major General John F. O'Ryan; Under Secretary of the Interior Charles West; Mayor LaGuardia and Bishop Francis J. McConnell...
...Adirondacks, a beach and 35-ft. cruising sloop in Florida. Tuition is $1,500 plus extras. Enrolled there this year are George Nichols, grandson of J. P. Morgan, and Drayton Phillips, son of William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Rome. Alumni include Leonard and Raymond Firestone, George Vanderbilt, three sons of Hiram Bingham, two sons of bridge-building Roeblings...
...Only last spring Pharmacologist Glenn Llewellyn Jenkins of the University of Maryland, chemist and assiduous inventor of synthetic drugs, published an article in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association on "Rational Use of the Earthworm for the Evaluation of Vermicides." This profoundly agitated Pharmacologist Paul Dudley Lamson of Vanderbilt University, caused him to write a vigorous rebuttal which Science published last week. Snapped Professor Lamson: "The human Ascaris [roundworm] is a parasitic animal living in the gut of man. It has no respiratory or circulatory system in any way related to that of an earthworm. It can live under...
League D--won by Lowell, 2 Eliot, 3 at Yale, football, Berkeley College 0, Winthrop House 0; swimming, Saybrook 42, Eliot 24; hockey, Vanderbilt Group 4, Winthrop 2; crew, Lowell defeated Saybrook by five lengths; tennis, Jonathan Edwards 4, Lowell 3; at Harvard, touch football, Dudley Hall 12, Vanderbilt 0; squash, Adams 5, Davenport 0; basketball, Saybrook 23, Adams 19; golf, Pearson 6 1/2, Lowell 4 1/2; baseball, Timothy Dwight 7, Kirkland...