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Kansas. Small-town Lawyer Andrew Schoeppel, who played end on the 1922 Nebraska University team that beat Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, was nominated by the Republicans for Governor. Third in the race was tempestuous Senator Clyde Reed, who had gone back home, hopping mad over the closed shop and union initiation fees at Kansas war plants, to run on a one-plank platform: "fair" labor legislation. (He incidentally wanted to take State party control from the old Alf Landon machine.) Soothed the Kansas City Star: "Kansas voters [merely] sent him back to Washington, where many believed his issue...
Many mountings of homemade telescopes are pieced together from the gleanings of junk yards. Clyde Tombaugh, the amateur who discovered the planet Pluto, made a telescope mount from an old cream separator. Nevertheless, most homemade telescopes look pretty good; however much junk they contain, they must be precision instruments. Several, in fact, are now in use at professional observatories...
Died. Captain H. Clyde Balsley, 48, early member of the Lafayette Escadrille and first U.S. flyer to be shot down in World War I; of complications from wounds received in 1916; in Los Angeles...
...Cerny, Jr., D. W. Chapman, W. C. Clark, J. M. Clarke, C. N. Clyde, Jr., C. A. Cottrell, G. L. Crain, J. L. Davenport, G. R. Davis, R. F. Dawson, R. B. Decker, Alfred Dennis, Richard Driscoll, F. S. Drummond, D. F. Ehritt, C. A. Ernst...
...grew up in Pasadena, went to the Madeira School in Washington, then to Smith College, married a Manhattan attorney named Clyde Brown Jr., divorced him in Reno within a year...