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...could be proved that germs reach the earth from other planets, scientists would be very much surprised. But last week scientists were considering the idea. Professor Louis Backman of Uppsala University, Stockholm, a pharmacologist and medical writer well known throughout Europe, had suggested that it was entirely possible that organisms causing recent flu epidemics had come from Venus, Jupiter or Mars...
...Eshleman was unluckier than Douglas Corrigan, whose "wrong-way" flight to Ireland brought him Hollywood riches, luckier than Fliers Thomas Smith, Charles Backman, whose unauthorized transatlantic flights this spring in bantam, low-powered planes carried them into limbo...
...certainly was more spectacular than any so far. With the score 2-2 after four matches had been played, M. W. Bradbyer '22, with two sets already played, 6-2, 5-7, and with the score in games against him, came through in the final set and defeated J. Backman of the B. U. team 10-8. The first doubles match went against the seconds, P. and D. Richardson of B. U. deteating Wilson Palmer '23 and J. D. Farnham '23 6-3, 6-2. Then in the final match of the afternoon, with the score...
...Bradbyer '22 defeated Backman...