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...trouble, it seems, was that Pete thought TIME too often and too favorably mentions the University of Chicago, where Pete played football under Alonzo Stagg-before Dr. Robert M. Hutchins took Chicago out of the Big Ten. Pete's wife wasn't too upset because, as she wrote, "I sat out too many games in pouring rain and wrung water from my purple velvet hat in our courting days...
...Amos Alonzo Stagg . . . . . Doctor of Public Service
...Alonzo G. Moron, president of Hampton Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...Frank O. Prior, 59, was named president of Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), replacing Alonzo W. Peake, 64, who will retire May 3 after 34 years with the company, ten as president. (Robert E. Wilson remains board chairman.) In his climb up the ladder, Prior often moved on to the rung vacated by Peake. A Stanford engineering graduate (1919), Prior started work as an oilfield laborer for Midwest Refining, where Peake was an oilfield superintendent. Shortly after, Standard bought Midwest, and as Peake moved up, Prior followed. In 1928, Peake was made president of another Standard subsidiary, Dixie Oil, and when...
...football's biggest weekend. All Saturday morning, rain fell on Columbus. But it stopped by noon, and on the stadium's dry turf Ohio State came back in the fourth quarter to whip Michigan, 21-7. Not since Chicago, coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, turned the trick in 1913 had a Big Ten team won seven straight conference games; the Buckeyes were Big Ten champs and Rose Bowl-bound. All evening Columbus echoed to California Here I Come...