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Oldtime turfmen like Poloist Carleton Burke (only Far Westerner ever admitted to the Jockey Club) and Boston-born Charles E. Perkins, who had kept on raising polo ponies and show horses during California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches...
...near military posts. Local health services were often impoverished, lackadaisical; so were local police, with whom Army police must cooperate. At two extremes were respectable, aseptic Battle Creek, Mich, ("the cereal city") and dreary Phenix City, Ala. Prompted by the wealthy First Congregational Church's outspoken, realistic Rev. Carleton Brooks Miller, Battle Creek officials decided to establish segregated, supervised zones for prostitutes who swarmed in after the 20,000 soldiers at nearby Camp Custer. Unchecked, unsupervised honky-tonks in Phenix City shot up the venereal rate at Fort Benning, Ga., nine miles away. Desperate officers talked of extending...
Starring for the Techmen were 165-pound Bob Fettis, one-time New England interscholastic wrestling champ, and 185-pound John Carleton, only Engineer to win his bout against last year's team. Sophomore Jim Higgins held out against the former for nearly six minutes in the toughest fight of the afternoon...
Heading the list were the Committee's honorary chairman, Professor Frans Boas, and Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, both former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Oswald Garrison Villard, former publisher and editor of "The Nation"; Dr. Carleton Washburne, president of the Progressive Education Association; Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard University, author of the Pulitzer Prize biography of William James...
James S. Bishop '42, Louisville, Ky.; Henry Brandt '43, New York, N.Y.; Le Baron R. Briggs 3d. '41, Plymouth, Mass.; Jack E. Bronston '42, Plainfield, N.J.; Earle J. Carleton Jr. '41, Newtonville, Mass...