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Victory in its mile relay event and creditable performances by individual Crimson representatives in the pole vault and high hurdles featured the Varsity track team's participation in the Knights of Columbus meet at the Boston Garden athletes turned in outstanding performances before more than 12,000 spectators at Boston's first big league meet of the season, but individual laurels went to Wes Flint, who took third place in the 45-yard high hurdle event won by AAU champion Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace, and later anchored the mile relay team to its triumph...
When Winter track steps out in bow tie and tuxedo Saturday evening for the annual Knights of Columbus track meet in the Boston Gardon, one of the most attentive spectators will be the Crimson's coach, Jaakko Mikkola. Fifteen of his athletes will run, vault, and hurdle their way through a 20-event program along with some 450 other entries representing the best in U. S. indoor track...
While still an insignificant Sig, Caniff imitated John Held Jr., tried editorial cartoons for the Columbus Dispatch. He was jobless in 1932 when the Associated Press Feature Service beckoned him on to New York...
Number 15 was Columbus' Neil House, called "the little Capitol of Ohio" (it's right across High Street from the real Capitol building), also crusty with political legend. Here William Henry Harrison made his headquarters in the "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" campaign of 1840; William McKinley lived there as governor. Other guests: Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley. The present structure, fourth on the same site, was built in 1923, has 700 rooms. It does an annual business of more than $2,000,000-which is just what Connie Hilton paid...
Color Question (Aug.). In Columbus, Ohio, a housepainter, exasperated by the endless questions of three-year-old Harold Thompson, painted him red, sent him home. Scrubbed, the boy returned, got a battleship grey treatment...