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...Bingham observes, the fault lies with college presidents who have sat by, content to watch their institutions catapult to fame behind the artillery of big time football brigades. President Conant has declared his contempt for "professional teams maneuvering behind collegiate banners", and has proposed an endowment policy to rid Harvard's sports of their dependence on gate receipts. But unfortunately an endowment fund large enough to handle the A.A.A. annual $400,000 budget seems pitifully remote. Mean-while Harvard is at the mercy of other colleges whose standards may vary with the wind...
...Germany's No. 1 airline started catapulting ship-to-shore airplanes from the Bremen and Europa. Since February 1934, Lufthansa has been running a regular weekly airplane mail service across the South Atlantic, using a catapult ship anchored off either shore. By last week Lufthansa was ready to tackle the more formidable North Atlantic on the experimental co-operative basis arranged with the U. S. and Pan American Airways last winter (TIME...
...Horta in the Azores, some 500 miles off Lisbon, sped the mothership Schwabenland. Aboard were the world's most powerful catapult and two sleek new Dornier all-metal flying boats, the Aeolus and Zephir. High-winged monoplanes with sponsons, powered by two Junkers Diesel engines in tandem on the wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards...
With the football season in full swing (see p. 53), Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey last week managed to catapult himself into the headlines by contributing a few notes on how footballers are financially coddled at Ohio State University. The Tree-Surgeon Governor was not concerned with the purification of Amateur Sport. His prime purpose was to embarrass politically the University, of which he is no alumnus...
...under a closed professional dome which doctors want their patients to believe is the most beautiful, unselfish, beneficent thing on earth.† Any physician who by accident or design happens to get into the lay spotlight runs a serious risk of being tossed out of Organized Medicine. Chief catapult is Chapter III, Article I, Section 4, of the Principles of Medical Ethics, which pertains to "advertising" and reads in part: ". . . It is equally unprofessional to procure patients ... by furnishing or inspiring newspaper or magazine comments concerning cases in which the physician has been or is concerned...