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Died. William Wallace Cook, 66, prolific fictionist, called "the man who deforested Canada" because of the avalanche of stories he fed into the pulp-magazine mill; after long illness; in Marshall, Mich. In 1916 as "Burt L. Standish" he took over the famed Frank Merriwell series created years before by William Gilbert Patten, kept it going a few years more. In 1927 he published "Plotto," an inexhaustible mine of skeleton plots for authors-in-a-hurry...
...James, 3b. 4 1 2 0 Munroe, r.f. 1 0 0 0 Gilbane, r.f. 3 0 0 0 Kroeger, c.f. 4 0 2 0 Tracy, l.f. 4 0 1 0 Caito, 2b. 4 0 2 0 Gilmartin, 1b. 4 0 4 0 Fowler, c. 4 2 1 3 Burt...
Since 1928, Harvard has won six games from the Bruins and losing but three. The invaders are as follows: Henshaw, 3b.; Munroe, r.f.; Kroeger, c.f.; captain; Tracy, l.f., a former Boston Latin School captain whi will attract a crowd of fans from Greater Boston; Caito, 2b.; Gilmartin, 1b.; Burt, s.s.; Fowler, c. Coach Jack Kelleher's ace, Bert Hamphries is expected to pitch...
...sooner or later overtakes most cinema executives, Hollywood wondered how MGM would fill the gap. Thaiberg's hand had been in all the pictures which for the last five years have made MGM Hollywood's most successful company. His partner, MGM's dignified Vice President Louis Burt Mayer has, since hiring Thalberg in 1922, concerned himself more with studio finance than production...
Pierrepont Burt Noyes, president of Oneida (N. Y.) Community Ltd. (silver) and his nephew knelt for 2,500 hours over a giant jigsaw puzzle 5 by 6| ft., finally fitted its 10,000 pieces into a picture of West Point Military Academy, proudly framed...