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...Townsend Plan had not acquired the cachet of Big Names as did Technocracy in the sad autumn of 1932. No Frank Vanderlip had drunk wine with it. It lacked the White House prestige which Anna Eleanor Roosevelt last year bestowed on the somewhat similar plan of Florida's 71-year-old Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin whose book Prohibiting Poverty, of which Mrs. Roosevelt ordered six copies, advocated that all essential work be done free by Commons aged 18 to 26, who would thereafter engage at will in capitalistic luxury industries as public-supported Capitals* (TIME, Oct. 23). Best that...
...Hurja first bet Mr. Huntley a hat that Democratic Nominee Joseph Guffey would beat Senator Reed this autumn in Pennsylvania. Next time they met, Republican Huntley raised the bet a pair of shoes. Later Mr. Hurja bumped the stakes a couple of shirts and Mr. Huntley came back with some neckties. By last week the bet covered nearly a full wardrobe, which Mr. Hurja stood in imminent danger of losing to Mr. Huntley...
...Jafsie") Condon, the aged and eccentric Bronx school master who as an intermediary handed $50,000 in ransom cash to someone whom he cannot yet positively identify. Bruno Hauptmann did not confine his outdoor life to city parks. His neighbors remember that he used to go hunting in the autumn, bring home a full bag of game, none of which he ever gave away. Once he went as far north as Canada. With Carl Henkel, six months after the ran som payment, he went to Maine...
...largely from last year's Freshmen and Jayvee outfits. Ken Hayes, who moved from the Jayvees to the Varsity infield toward the end of the 1934 season, reported for duty, as did pitchers Dick Walsh and Proctor Avon from the 1933 Freshmen. There will be daily practice throughout the autumn to give Coach Fred Mitchell a chance to look over some of the material he hasn't worked with before...
Starting early to whip some unusually fine material into shape, Coach Fred Mitchell is beginning informal fall baseball practice tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The main purpose of the practice sessions this autumn is to give Mitch a chance to look over some of the men who were either on the Freshman team or were ineligible last season and hence haven't worked before under Fred's eagle eyes...