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...ugly contest between Clarence Wiley ("Doc") Spears and Walter Ernest ("Little Doctor") Meanwell for the athletic directorship of the University of Wisconsin started in 1932. That autumn Wisconsin's board of regents forced the athletic council to bring Spears on from Oregon to be head football coach. He accepted the job at a lower wage than he was getting at Oregon because alumni groups had promised him the athletic directorship within two years. In 1934 President Glenn Frank, apparently worried over Spears' reputation as an advocate of "bigtime" football, used his deciding vote on the board of regents...
...Last autumn Wisconsin had a disastrous football season, winning one game, losing seven. There were rumors that Coach Spears would be fired. After the season, 220-lb. Captain-elect John Golemgeske of Waukesha cornered Director Meanwell, said he represented 18 squad members who desired Spears' dismissal. The "Little Doctor" told him to present it in writing. Soon afterward, the football squad celebrated its poor season at a local roadhouse. Golemgeske dragged his supporters into the men's room, put the question to them. Seen there by an assistant coach, he was taken before Spears who plied him with...
Figure Skating is patterned on the ballet. To make sure their figures would fit perfectly the music which accompanied them, World Champion Pair Skaters Ernst Baier, 29-year-old Berlin architect, and Maxi Herber, his 16-year-old Munich protégée, last autumn had themselves photographed in action by a cinema camera, sent the film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader...
...Printing, caught Queen Anne levying the first taxes against newspapers, discovered that the American Revolution "really began in 1765" when the first batch of newspaper duty stamps was shipped out to the Colonies from England, deduced that the Louisiana tax law was not only unconstitutional but historically unsound. Last autumn three U. S. District Court judges sitting at Baton Rouge found for the publishers on the discrimination plea presented by Lawyer Esmond Phelps, a New Orleans Times-Picayune director, passed over Lawyer Deutsch's libertarian thesis. When Public Account Supervisor Alice Lee Grosjean took the case to Washington, however...
...daily Free Press feature, and Guest the wonder of the staff for the ease with which he metamorphosed everyday trifles into folksy copy. When the Guests put their oleander out in the spring, it was duly recorded. It made the column again when they brought it in in the autumn. The children (Eddie Jr. & Janet), Mrs. Guest's pickles, a friend's fancy vest, were all grist for the rhymester's mill...