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...that most of the bad weather is over we have found just the man that could have helped out with the uniform of the day problem that we had a while back . . . William Dodd has seen plenty of service as an Aerographer (weather man to you) and his famous bunion ache test will always tell when lousy weather is coming. No wonder he has been limping ever since he has been here...
Wadding "Bull" Souder '41 and stilt-legged Doug Shepardson '41, Mutt and Jeff of Adams House, are not content to wave a flag on Patriots. Day like every other good American. They will display their national spirit by running the twenty-six mile annual bunion derby from Framingham to Boston in seven hours...
Doctor Suominen once ran 100 miles from Chicago to Milwaukee (stopping only for orange juice), once ran 1,000 miles in one of C. C. Pyle's famed "bunion Derbies." But last week, after six hours, the hot pavement had so blistered his feet that he had to quit with only six more miles to go. Duke, still going strong, won by default...
...Corriere della Sera, leading newsorgan of Italy's Pittsburgh (Milan): "This is the West which retreats in the face of the union of the East-a Bunion which continues slowly reaching all objectives without shots or ultimatums. . . . After seven centuries of battle against Slav influence, the German minorities which acted as sentinels of northeast Europe now retreat, giving up their parts to Russians. . . . The mass exodus of Germans from the Baltic is viewed with feelings of dismay...
Died. Charles C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle, 56, famed sports promoter; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Promoter Pyle made a fortune managing the professional career of Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange and sponsoring the first U. S. professional tennis tours. He lost it in 1929 in his second transcontinental "bunion derby" (marathon), tried to recoup with his "Believe It or Not" concession at Chicago's Century of Progress Fair...