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...that would improve his sprinters. Dink Templeton writes his own newspaper copy. He prepared a story soon after last week's meet in which he called McCluskey the most courageous runner he had ever seen. He also said: "His [Graber's] five points, three and four-fifths more than Bert De-Groot took with his tie for third, provided the decisive blow which killed father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: West Meets East | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Jordan's Men. In the early days at Stanford, pioneering Dr. Jordan said: "The problem of life is not to make life easier but to make men stronger." One of his first students at Stanford in 1891 was lean, shy young "Bert" Hoover, just down from Oregon. Next year came 6-ft.-4-in., 17-year-old "Rex" Wilbur of Riverside, Calif.? The friendship begun at college between these two?like the friendship between Co-eds Lou Henry and Marguerite Blake whom they later married ?was to live long. Dr. Jordan was to be specially conscious of Bert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Farm | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Daily practice and the services of a coach for the first time have done much to make Harvard's golf season successful this Spring. Under the able tutelage of Coach Bert Nicolls, Belmont pro., the Crimson forces have downed Weston Country Club 6 to 3, Holy Cross 8 to 1, Pennsylvania 8 1-2 to 1-2, Georgetown 5 1-2 to 3 1-2, and Brown 9 to 0. They have only been defeated by Dartmouth and Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN AND MINOR SPORTS | 5/23/1931 | See Source »

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, wheel-horses of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, Helen Hayes, pudgy emotional actress, Bert Lahr, loud-voiced comic, and Jimmy Durante, long-nosed, button-eyed master of ceremonies who makes up his own gags, will work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lunt & Fontanne's first picture will probably be Private Lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Planning Season | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Kidnapped last October by Chinese bandits with some smattering of Western culture, Rev. Bert N. Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn. Lutheran missionary, has been bargaining ever since for his release, communicating with his brother in Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Kidnapping Notes | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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