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...running events. Although there will be no outstanding quarter milers if Joe Donnelly is saved for the relay, Sophomores Dan Hamilton and Tim Willcox have been coming fast. In the 880 are veterans A1 Hanlon, Joe Bradley, and last year's Yardling captain Rolla Campbell. A potential record-breaker, Campbell last year covered the half in 1.57.4, but is still weak as the result of a long illness last winter...
...William Hall of No. 58 North 16th Street, Harrisburg, Pa. last week rented his old horse-drawn victoria for its quadrennial job: to carry Pennsylvania's Governor to his inaugural. In the rented relic outgoing Governor George Howard Earle and incoming Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James rode to the State Capitol, where Republicans formally retrieved control of the State from the Democrats who held it for four years...
When the late Jay Gould, maker and breaker of railroads, lay dying, his devoted daughter Helen, then 24, was a constant attendant at his bedside. Last week at Roxbury, N. Y., Jay Gould's birthplace, she died, after a stroke, an extraordinary daughter of an extraordinary father, of an extraordinary family...
...PHOTOS." Later the Herex offered "$50 WEEKLY FOR NEWS TIPS AND NEWS PICTURES. . . . ALL INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL." But both papers continued to get editions out with police assistance. Most distant striker: American Sports Writer Jim Gallagher, who was in New Orleans for a baseball meeting. Notable strike breaker: Margaret ("Maggie") Sikora, who has been working as a Herex stenographer since her "Model Husband," Rudolph, was acquitted of killing her sweetheart. At week's end, 46 American strikers announced through a Hearst spokesman that they were going back to work, adding "It was fun while it lasted!" Guild headquarters insisted...
...undergraduates who see me for the first time have read your newspapers and heard on the air that I am, at the very least, an ogre - a consorter with communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions. You think of me perhaps as the inventor of the economic royalist, of the wicked utilities, of the money changers of the temple. You have heard for six years that I was about to plunge the nation into war; that you and your little brothers would be sent to the bloody fields of battle in Europe; that...