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Comptroller General McCarl last week saved the Government $25 by ruling that a man's lifeblood is no commodity. One gob, Charles A. Smingler, recently contributed liberally from his veins to save by blood transfusion the life of Lieutenant Commander Thomas M. Cochran, ill unto death. The Navy Department issued an order to pay Smingler $25. Mr. McCarl overruled the order, maintaining that Smingler's act was a personal service, "not the sale of a commodity...
...long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
...Thomas Cochran ranch, for example, had originally been owned by a bear-hunter, Joseph (Frenchy) Duret, who poached on park animals. In 1922, a grizzly killed him. That summer Mr. Cochran, at the suggestion of the Colonel bought the ranch at a high price, in order to deliver from the hands of unsavory characters, to preserve for the happiness of wild life. Mr. Cochran (although reserving a little) turned over the control to the National Park Service, which has the use of the ranch today. Always Mr. Cochran has given far more than he has received...
...winnings for the privilege of riding him, and Bruening had refused. A. A. Kaiser's Captain Hal, who had turned in the best trial times, and Kentucky Cardinal, also impressive in trial, were popular. Sande was up on Flying Ebony, stable mate to G. A. Cochran's Coventry, Preakness winner. The Whitney-Greentree Stables' entries had been weakened by the loss of Chantey, a last-minute scratch...
Among the many prominent national figures announced as speakers are included J. H. Scattergood '97, G. Sherwood Eddy, Harry E. Fosdick, John R. Mott, A. Ray Petty, J. Stitt Wilson, Charles R. Brown, Henry Sloane Coffin, Charles Taft, Ralph Harlow, William Cochran, and J. T. Stocking...