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Three hundred orphans in an asylum near Ann Arbor, Mich, raised a tumult of delight last week when they learned that Professor Russell Welford Bunting, University of Michigan oral pathologist, had decided that acidophilus bacilli make teeth decay. That meant that Professor Bunting probably was through fussing with the mouths, meals, appetites and digestions of the 300 orphans, whom he has had under close dietary supervision for the past five years...
...valor medal in Michigan was Corporal Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"),* tricky oldtime middle-weight prizefighter and barroom brawler. Two years ago fisticuffer McCoy finished a nine-year term in San Quentin Prison for drunkenly killing a sweetheart. Last August, when a boat capsized in a lake near Ann Arbor, he raced to the rescue in a motorboat. Grey, paunchy and 61, Kid McCoy fished five children from the water, dived deep for their parents until his nose spurted blood from the pressure...
...rabies, fills the schools with health speakers. To its hospital every year come 30,000 patients, to its dental clinic 15,000. Its broadcasting service prides itself on music classes by radio. There are public concerts by the Music School faculty and every spring a May Festival at Ann Arbor. The University holds institutes for parent-teacher clubs, for women's clubs, for owners of timberland. It gives courses for industrial foremen, for meter-readers. It is a big brother to the public school system, arranging examinations, promoting orchestras and debating clubs. The State relies on it for research...
...victim of journalistic skullduggery. Yale lost the National Collegiate Swimming championships (no dual meet) to Michigan last year. Michigan, winners of last year's National Collegiate Swimming championships (no dual meet), has tried to arrange a dual meet with Yale this season, without success. Last week, an Ann Arbor sportswriter parodied a series of letters between Michigan's Coach Matt Mann and Yale's Kiphuth. Samples...
President of Theta Phi is Dr. Frederick Bohn Fisher, 52, lately of Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, now of Detroit's First. Long a missionary bishop in India, Dr. Fisher became a good friend of St. Gandhi whom he calls "Boppo" ("Little Father"). An able, vigorous preacher, he arises daily at 4 a. m., gives 20%, of his income to his church, 55% to all causes. Entering his new job with gusto, Dr. Fisher promptly produced a quotation to justify Theta...