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Died. Martin Branner, 81, cartoonist, who in 1920 created the Winnie Winkle comic strip that still runs in more than 150 papers; of heart disease; in New London, Conn...
Time did not permit a wrestle-off in the 138-pound class, so Saturday's starter, Dean Sheppard. will again start tonight. He meets one of the R??men's best wrestlers, John Branner...
Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner got on a bus one day last month, and for eight days readers of the Chicago Tribune and 140 other newspapers followed Cartoonist Martin Michael Branner's heroine through a series of depressing experiences. She was annoyed by a traveling salesman, bored by a Shakespearean ham, sprawled over by a yokel couple. Many a reader guessed that Cartoonist Branner had gone somewhere on a bus and hadn't liked it much...
...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...
...Leland Stanford'.? Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, resigned from, that body, protesting "reactionary (militaristic) policies of the national board in regard to peace, disarmament and the World Court" (TIME, April 28). Among those who resigned were the wives of Dr. David Starr Jordan and Dr. John Casper Branner. both presidents of oldtime Leland Stanford, "The Cornell of the West." Not among them was Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, who remains a D. A. R., believes she and others can correct conditions better by working within the organization...