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...ahead of Candidate Borah's in the Statewide vote. Senator Borah elected two district delegates in Akron, one each in Cleveland, Youngstown and Steubenville. Mr. Taft carried off the other 47 of Ohio's 52 votes. In fact the earnest, high-minded lawyer-son of the 27th President of the U. S. made such a surprisingly good showing that romantic journalists began to circulate rumors to the effect that Mr. Taft, instead of being just a hopeless Favorite Son, might make a satisfactory Dark Horse at Cleveland...
...period during the year when prominent U. S. newspapermen express themselves from the forum instead of the type font is the University of Missouri's Journalism Week. To Columbia, Mo. last week went 350 guests of the University's School of Journalism to take part in the 27th Journalism Week, the first without the presence of Dr. Walter Williams, founder of the school and president of the University from 1931 until his death last July...
...runners prefer the spectacle of the Penn Relays staged at Franklin Field. Others yield to the extravagant ballyhoo of the Drake Relays, held in that tiny University's huge horseshoe stadium. Last week Philadelphia's 42nd enticed 3,000 entries from schools and colleges; Des Moines' 27th, 2,000. Both groups gave spectators few records, many thrills...
Balked at every turn, Ohio's leaders decided to pick the best man they could from their own State. They selected one of Ohio's most reputable Republicans, Robert Alphonso Taft, elder son of the 27th President of the U. S., grandson of Grant's Secretary of War and Attorney General. Lawyer Taft's chief qualifications were: 1) his name; 2) his "gold-clause" suit for $1.07 against the U. S. Government, a suit against which the New Deal's best legal talent last week filed a brief in the Court of Claims...
...unusual touch occurred recently when Wayne King, nationally known The show will open for the public at the Club-house, 12 Holyoke Street on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings, March 24, 25, and 26. A performance will also be given in Boston on March 27th. After that the cast will entrain for a trip to Washington, Hot Springs, Virginia, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and back to New York for the final performance April...