Word: alf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again the Harvard guards were responsible for much of the team's scoring, both Kollinites and Fletcher tallying six points. However, they were unable to smother Alf Bonniwell so well as before, and he romped about for a total of 11 counters...
Author Hampson's people are farther down the social scale. Alf and Ted are devoted brothers. The time comes when Alf, the older, starts running around with girls. Ted is hurt and miserable. Alf becomes engaged to Laura, then is killed in a motorcycle accident. Loyal, devoted Ted marries Laura to give his name to Alf's unborn child. Writing his story in a manner reminiscent of Swinnerton's Nocturne, John Hampson has made much of decidedly slender material...
Spoffard is conceded a first in the dashes but Eddie Calvin may overturn the predictions here. Tony Bliss is expected to win out in the 800 and Estabrook to place. Scheu and Alf Hallowell will capture second and third in the 1600 and Bob Playfair looks a sure go in the 3200. The dashes will be divided between Hayes and Dunbar. The resulting computations make the score break even, but it is easy to see that a single upset will turn the tide. For instance in the informal time trials yesterday afternoon, an excellent showing was made...
Seven defending champions return from last year's meet, four of them Harvard men. In the 1600 Alf Hallowell will be hard pressed to beat Johnny Scheu, his team-mate, and Morton Jenkins of M.I.T.; Johnny White, who took the 800 a year ago, will have some trouble in repeating this year, inasmuch as he is suffering from a stone bruise. Milbrandt of Northeastern, who is entered in four field events, is favored to take the shot put over Harvard's Johnny Dean, defending champion of both the shot and discus. Bob Playfair, Harvard's star sophomore distance...
...onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman J. N. Tincher; 7) Emporia, Kans. to dine with Republican William Allen White; 8) Topeka, Kans. to visit with Republican Governor Alf Landon; 9) Kansas City to meet Arthur Hyde, his old Secretary of Agriculture, and Editor Henry J. Haskell of the Kansas City Star; 10) Des Moines, to dine with Register and Tribune Publisher John Cowles; 11 Cedar Rapids, to see Republican Committeeman Harrison Spenglar; and 12) Chicago where Arch Shaw...