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People mostly remember Baron Hailsham as Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg (TIME, May 16, 1927). With the inferior title he made a great name for himself in the House of Commons as Attorney General; and for years Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin depended on Sir Douglas to carry the brunt of many a debate, silence hecklers, sit tight...
Editor High has hinted what the scroll will say. "It is not only because of Bishop Cannon's leadership but also because of the unselfishness of his leadership that the Christian Herald chose him for this honor. The wet interests reviled him. The wet press made him the brunt of its caricatures. But he never flinched...
...ride with his son Stewart. Over Asbury Park, he leaned out of the cockpit to see what the famed resort looked like from a height of 1,000 feet. His spectacles fell from his nose. Next day the same spectacles, undamaged, were returned to Mr. Chadwick by Arthur Van Brunt, on whose Asbury Park farm they had fallen...
...Neil '28 and R. P. Porter '29 should break the tape in front of Keith, Dartmouth's best performer in this event. The mile and two mile should add heavily to the Crimson total, with J. L. Reid '29, Leslie Flaksman '29, and R. G. Luttman '29 carrying the brunt of the work. The Hanoverians boast no miler or two-miler who can keep pace with these Crimson distance...
...cinder track on Soldiers Field will see heavy duty this weekend, when it will bear the brunt of the annual University handicap track meet and the annual Harvard interscholastic track games, to be run off this afternoon and tomorrow...