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...Gazette, which began its 130th year last week, was founded by Printer William Woodruff, who ferried his press from Tennessee by canoe. "Mister J.N." Heiskell, who also came from Tennessee, has run it for the last 46 years. He has fought against governors and utilities, and for equal (but separate) opportunities for Negroes. He hates monopoly journalism; the Gazette once bought the rival Democrat, but Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading...
...130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg (a former German cavalry barracks), General George Smith Patton Jr. was fighting for his life. His neck had been broken in an auto accident when he was on his way to shoot pheasants. He fought with the same tenacity with which he had fought his enemies. He was mending so well that medics took off the elaborate traction apparatus and put their 60-year-old patient in a plaster cast. There was talk of flying him home. Then a respiratory infection set in. Last week-twelve days after his accident-George Patton died...
This week, on the 130th anniversary of the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the Constitution), President Roosevelt said, in good words & true...
...nomadic Globetrotters, No. 1 Negro basketball team in the U. S., it was the 130th victory in 132 games this season, the 1,840th victory since the team was organized 13 years ago. Traveling by bus, they cover 35,000 miles a year, attract 350,000 spectators. In all games their technique is the same: to try to get eight or ten points ahead of their opponents, and then exhibit their fancy ball handling, such as spinning the ball on fingertips, flipping it between legs, rolling it up one arm and down the other. Star stunt man is 37-year...
Closing the 130th concert season of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University orchestra, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, will give a concert tonight in Paine Hall at 8:15 o'clock...