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...through Vanderbilt University (where he played star tackle and belonged to the famed literary group of "Fugitives"), took time out to fight with the Marines in World War I. At political odds with the chancellor, he left shortly before the end of his senior year, went to the Nashville Banner as sports editor under his fellow classman (now publisher) James Geddes Stahlman. He originated a popular, Will Rogerish column called I'm the Gink, branched into political writing with prodigious energy. Shortly after going to the Constitution he married a redheaded Nashville girl named Mary Elizabeth Leonard, who first...
...problem: charming Norma Ward Lundeen, the 46-year-old widow of British-hating, German-loving Senator Ernest Lundeen, who was killed in a 1940 airplane crash. Mrs. Lundeen, firm of jaw and of conviction, is campaigning to vindicate her husband's bitter-end isolationism, "to travel under his banner." People who had already looked under Lundeen's banner had found there many smelly characters like George Sylvester Viereck, old Lundeen friend now serving two-to-six years in jail for his work as an agent of the Nazis. Viereck ghostwrote many a Lundeen speech...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Pierian Sodality Orchestra and the University Band, directed the musicians as they stood in formation in front of Thayer Hall. The 20-minute program began with The Star Spangled Banner as flag lowering took place and as the new class of S-O's stood at attention...
Vern had an optimistic were for the squad, and particularly for the tackle position. According to him, right tackle Russ Stannard is set for a banner year, while Stan Durwood and George Hibbard "should have no trouble handling the left tackle spot...
...Churchill's bomber and two others carrying 14 British and six American military and diplomatic bigshots droned over Moscow, a full escort of fighters swarmed around them. At the airport Churchill stood at attention for God Save the King, The Star-Spangled Banner and The Internationale...