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...floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute, who placed fourth in the Open two years ago; he gave the youngest British player, 25-year-old Bert Hodson, the worst beating of all, eight up and six to play. The U. S. team needed one more match and got it when its captain, Walter Hagen, a linen hat pulled down on the back of his thick neck, pursued by a small boy with an armful of American flags...
Leading executives of Snorkey & Co. indicted last week were: Joe Fusco, business manager of the syndicate's beer department; Bert Delaney, superintendent of manufactures; Steve Swoboda, veteran brewmaster. Snorkey is liable to two years imprisonment, $10,000 fine if convicted. Federal punishment now hanging over the head of the arch criminal: 34½ years in prison, $90,000 in fines. So impressed was Snorkey by the magnitude of the threatened punishment, it was said last week, that he offered to "compromise" the case with the Government by payment of $4,000,000. But officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
With General Cohen there also deserted to the new Canton Government last week Ace Bert Hall of Bowling Green, Ky. In 1913 Aviator Hall and his mechanic were Turkey's two-man air force in the Balkan War. When the World War broke Aviator Hall was in Paris, joined the Foreign Legion, left it later to help found the famed Lafayette Escadrille. He shot down nine German planes, was decorated seven times by Allied Governments. Aged 50 he is still spoiling for fights, picks plenty in China, where he is "General Chan...
...have learned that it pays to look up a man's good points," Dr. Jordan has said. It was he who found Hoover the job that enabled him to go to college; he who, though Hoover lacked entrance credits in English Composition, admitted him to Stanford. After four years Bert Hoover, famed today as an infinitive-splitter, was still deficient in English, but "as he seemed to have all the other requirements of a useful citizen, we graduated him anyway and let him take his chances in the world...
...John Casper Branner, the geology professor in whose laboratory Bert Hoover first met Lou Henry, was promoted from the university's vice-presidency to succeed Dr. Jordan. Dr. Branner lived less than three years and in 1916 Ray Lyman Wilbur stepped up. That year Dr. Jordan became chancellor emeritus...