Word: colorado
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University of Colorado's bespectacled 20-year-old Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, All-America back and 1937's high college football scorer (122 points) who this week plays in the Cotton Bowl game against Rice Institute, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where his brother Samuel is currently a Rhodes Scholar...
Dallas' Cotton Bowl: Rice v. Colorado University...
Rocky Mountain Conference. Not since 1924 has the University of Colorado been undisputed champion of its conference, but last week when undefeated Colorado lined up against the University of Denver no one doubted that it would be so this year. Led by a young quarterback, Byron ("Whizzer") White, who like his brother Sam two years ago is not only a great player but an honor student, president of the student council and leading candidate for a Rhodes scholarship, Colorado had romped over all its opponents. The question was whether Whizzer White would regain from Sid White (no relation) of Brooklyn...
...they claimed that wool tops margins are too low, speculation too rife. The Providence Journal announced that a group of dealers this week will ask the Senate Wool Investigating Committee to suspend trading in wool tops futures. While other wool factions called this "ridiculous," Senator Alva Blanchard Adams of Colorado, chairman of the committee, which was appointed in 1935 to look into the marketing of wool after producers protested that they got too low prices in large business centres, opined that it did not have power to suspend trading anyway...
MIDAS OF THE ROCKIES-Frank Waters -Covici, Friede ($3). A native son's firecracker salute to Winfield Scott Stratton, discoverer of Colorado's fabulous Cripple Creek gold mine, the ex-carpenter whose eccentricities, secretive dissipations, tightfistedness, double-dealing make lively reading, but not, in Author Waters' account, much sense...