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...Porter first won fame by catching a Harvard kickoff behind his own goal line, running it back 107 yards for a touchdown. Athletic and youngish at 52, he is an active Y. M. C. A. worker, author of several religious books. First and most popular thing he did last autumn, after Mr. Speer called him to Mount Hermon as head of the Bible Department, was to enter the student-faculty tennis tournament, win every match. His educational creed: "Much of our secondary and college education has become efficient without being sufficient. The refreshingly new techniques of our day are never...
Peddie's longtime Headmaster Roger Williams Swetland died of ripe old age last autumn. In 36 years he had covered the campus at Hightstown, N. J., with new buildings, made his school the pride of U. S. Baptists and a major feeder for Princeton. Last week Peddie, too, got a religious, athletic new headmaster in the Rev. Wilbour E. Saunders, Secretary of the Rochester (N. Y.) Federation of Churches, onetime pastor of Brooklyn's Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. Peddie trustees knew they were choosing a man whose study at Cambridge had given him a strong enthusiasm...
...coat, Roscoe Turner took off from Miami for New York (1,200 mi.) last week, ostensibly to break Rickenbacker's transport record of 8 hr. 36 min. With him in the United Air Lines' Boeing in which he placed third in the England-Australia air race last autumn was United's Traffic Manager Harold Crary. An hour after Turner's departure a regular Eastern Air Liner took off from Miami with twelve passengers. Pilot Dick Merrill refueled at Charleston, picked up a tailwind at Richmond, scooted into Newark at 227 m.p.h., two minutes ahead of Turner...
Into that scene last autumn buzzed a gadfly named Transradio Press Service, an upstart newsgathering organization in the business of serving independent radio stations which preferred not to be bound by the truce (TIME, Oct. 29). In Pittsburgh Transradio found such a station in WJAS, which is locally owned but hooked into the Columbia network. WJAS found a potent sponsor in Kaufmann's department store, biggest, most progressive retail business in Pittsburgh. On New Year's Day, WJAS inaugurated two daily 15-min. news broadcasts, supplied by Transradio and paid for, $1,000 a week, by Kaufmann...
...Negro Congressman from Illinois. The judge asked whether he could pay a $38 judgment in favor of a stationer, got this reply: "I am penniless and looking for a job." All but $1,500 of his money Oscar De Priest sank in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election last autumn. The last $1,500 went for income taxes...