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John A. Bradshaw, Ann Arbor--Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan...
...Yorkville (Manhattan's East Side German district), beloved of Labor because lie is credited with authorship of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. But Senator Wagner, although he called politely at Tammany Hall, declined the honor. So Tammany finally staked its bets on a onetime Republican mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich., New York's other Senator, Royal S. Copeland...
...Mehlhorn's 271 in the 1929 El Paso Open. Last week Mehlhorn's astounding record, which all the best professionals in the world have since failed to equal was convincingly shattered by an unknown, 22-year-old Battle Creek playground supervisor named Melvin ("Chick") Harbert. On the Arbor Hills Country Club course at Jackson, Mich. Golfer Harbert won the Michigan Open Championship with a four-round total of 268, 18 strokes better than his nearest competitor and 20 better than...
...scoring at golf depends as much on the course as on the player. Arbor Hills is a 6,700-yd. course with five par 5 holes. Golfer Harbert's 268 (31-32-32-32-33-34-36-38) might have been better if reporters had not mistakenly told him while he was playing his last round that Mehlhorn's record was 266. Twenty-three strokes under par when he got his 24th birdie of the tournament at the 5th hole. Golfer Harbert weakened under the pressure of trying to break the record, took three over...
when he became president of the University of Maine (1922), to Ann Arbor, Mich, when he became president of the University of Michigan (1925), to Bar Harbor, where he became director of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in 1929. At Bar Harbor, in a small building whose solid brick walls exclude stray mice, he produces 150,000 mice a year, sells 50,000 to other scientific institutions for research, anatomizes 25,000 to analyze their inherited characteristics, especially their susceptibility to cancer...