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Died. Stephen J. ("Steve") Farrell, 69, longtime (1912-30) University of Michigan track coach; of a heart attack; on the university golf course at Ann Arbor. Connecticut-born, he learned to run as a volunteer fireman, was a harness-mate of three fleet youngsters famed in later years as Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum...
...Central Woodward Church). A onetime president of his church's international body, onetime Detroit Newsman, at present a correspondent for the Christian Century, Author Jones knows his preachers well. He portrays 32 of them, chosen after careful consultations among fellow-preachers. Excerpts: ¶ Frederick Bohn Fisher of Ann Arbor. Mich, is the Mahatma Gandhi's most impassioned U. S. devotee. A Methodist missionary in India, he was made a bishop in 1920, resigned in 1930 because his job was "too much burdened with administration and too little harnessed to definite spiritual functions." Of him St. Gandhi has said...
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Joseph Henry Beale, Harvard law professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President John Campbell Merriam of Carnegie Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. President Eugene Cornelius Sullivan of Corning Glass Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D...
...fractures of the skull and pelvis sustained in the automobile collision in which her husband was killed; in Manhattan, Ill since the accident occurred May 16, she developed pneumonia, was never told of her husband's death. Died. Horace H. Rackham, 74, Detroit attorney and charitarian; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Disregarding the advice of bankers, he mortgaged his real estate, borrowed $5,000, took 50 shares in the Ford Motor Co. in 1903. In 1919, Henry and Edsel Ford bought...
...Arbor critics prophesied a great success for Merry Mount at the Metropolitan next winter. Excerpts from Critic Stokes's libretto: Indians...