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Glynn faded back and pitched a high one into the end-zone. A player from each team leaped into the air, and each came down with his hands on the ball. While both teams pleaded vociferously for the decision, the referee, remembering perhaps Adolph Samborski's pregame remark that the officials always have a good time in these games because "the funniest things happen," ruled the pass completed to Deacon Jerry Minton, giving Kirkland the margin of victory...
NUREMBERG, October 16 -- Ten condemned Nazi ring leaders died on the gallows in the Nuremberg jail year today, but Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler's No. 2 man, cheated the noose by swallowing poison in his cell before the death sentence was read...
...Adolph G. Studer's time, Detroit has swelled from a dozing Midwestern town of less than 200,000 to the fourth city in the U.S., a brawling industrial center of nearly 2,000,000. The Young Men's Christian Association has grown with it. The chief reason: aged (79), devout Dr. Studer, the world's oldest active Y secretary, and one of the shrewdest Christian gentlemen who ever wore the triangle. Says...
...Young Adolph came to Detroit in 1887 to learn the hardware business. A crack athlete, he went to the Y for exercise. Four years later he was exercising full-time-as the Y's physical director. But he was doing a good deal more than exercise. He found that he was serving God in a way that best suited his abilities and temperament...
Back in 1896-the year when Adolph S. Ochs bought control of the tired Times for $75,000-ambitious young (33) Hearst picked up the tottering Journal for $180,-ooo. Over at the World (according to the Journal's historians), Joseph Pulitzer pooh-poohed: "No one from the West lasts in New York." Before long such Pulitzer prizes as Arthur Brisbane, S. S. Carvalho and Merrill Goddard were working for Hearst, and inside of a year the Journal's circulation skyrocketed from...