Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ineligibility of ex-Captain Dubiel, there is not a letterman available to Coach Harlow for his line extremities. Gibby Winter and Don Daughters have been playing end on the A team during the past week, but Phil Staples and Ben Smith have been right on their heels all the time...
...Mayer; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. After studying shorthand in a Brooklyn night school, he got a job as office boy to Universal's Carl Laemmle, for whom he filmed his first big show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in 1923. Soon stolen by MGM, he produced Ben Hur, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade, developed such stars as Lon Chaney, Robert Montgomery. Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, made M-G-M millions at the boxoffice. Addicted to nervous overwork, he arranged his most ambitious and recent film, Romeo & Juliet, around his wife, Norma Shearer (TIME...
...Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, at Litchfield, with pneumonia; Governor Charles Ben Ross of Idaho, Democratic rival of William Edgar Borah for the U. S. Senate, at Boise with neuritis; Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, at Santa Barbara with a carbuncle. Snapped he into a radio microphone at his bedside: "The party of Lincoln ... is nothing more than a racketeering gang led by millionaire privilege seekers and tax evaders, with a following of inflammatory demagogs and Democratic renegades in the pay of the Liberty League...
...Columbus, O.; Jesse W. Croach, Jr., of Paducah, Ky.; William H. Daughaday, of Winnetka, Ill.; Samuel M. Fahr, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Otto W. Fick, Jr., of Oak Park, Ill.; Robert W. Harvey, of Kansas City, Mo.; Leonard C. Holvik, of Elbow Lake, Minn.; Donald F. Hornig, of Milwankee, Wis.; Ben F. McCamey, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn.; Phill C. Neal, of Oak Park, Ill.; Robert L. Peasok, of Peninsula, O.; Mathew D. R. Riddell, of Urbana, Ill.; Allen L. Snyder, of St. Louis, Mo.; and John L. Wallen, of Findlay...
...lettermen returning due to Dubiel's downfall. Bob Daughters, who is coming up from the Freshmen, will be in the thick of the fight, but this Sophomore, though fast and a marvelous pass receiver, will probably need another year of seasoning before his defensive work comes up to par. Ben Smith is the other Freshman who will report on September 15, while Gibson Winter and Joe Kennedy, a pair of Juniors, are all applicants for the post. Unless some shift is made, however, the ends appear to be the weak links in the chains...