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Gloomy Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland knew that Coach Jim Phelan had drilled the Huskies to watch Marshall Goldberg. 18-year-old Panther halfback. He kept Goldberg out of his attack, used him as a decoy to suck in the defense while Bobby LaRue and Frank Patrick took the ball away. Eel-hipped Patrick's spinners knifed long gashes in the famed Washington line. LaRue pointed his knees at the Husky ends, hitting top speed in a stride or two while his interference took out the secondary defense as if they thought each play was a potential touchdown...
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...yard free style, E. C. Devereux '34, and J. L. Ward '34 will face Bain of Columbia, who placed second in the recent Penn State-Columbia meet, with a time of considerably over 2, minutes, 27 seconds. Inasmuch as both Ward and Devereux have made faster time, this event is rated as one of the possible clean sweeps for the Crimson swimmers...
...weigh 182 Ib. which is exactly 4 Ib. more than I weighed 30 years ago when I played baseball and boxed in the light heavyweight class. Finally, especially if you ever deal with me again, for -'s† sake get a new photograph of me. The Bain News Service, No. 255 Canal Street, New York City took a pretty good one of me when I got back from Europe a couple of months...
After ten weeks of stormy trial, Chicago's John Bain, 64-year-old founder of a chain of twelve small banks that failed at one crack last year (TIME, June 22, 1931), was last week convicted of conspiracy to defraud depositors. Scottish immigrant, onetime plumber, Bankster Bain had prospered in real estate, then branched into banking. Before the Depression, his Midas reputation spread widely among the clerks and laborers of Chicago's Southside districts. Unsound real estate promotions, wholesale juggling of assets among his various banks, whisked over his house of cards. When the banks crashed with deposits...