Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sending in a steady stream of substitutes towards the closing minutes of the contest, Coach Fesler used 15 men in all. Princeton managed to work 11 players into the game. Leading their scorers was Walter Woodward, bespectacled guard who dropped in two field goals and eight fouls for a total of eight points. HARVARD PRINCETON Lowman (Grondahl, Kuhn, Shirk), l.f. l.f., Vruwink (Fallon, Buddington) White (McGowan, Heckel), r.f. r.f. Woodward (Parker, Givens) Gray (Herrick), c. c., Sauter Struck (Dampeer, Snell), r.g. r.g., Hobler (Parker) Lupien (Wills, Litman), l.g. l.g., Scofield (Hill...
...other hand if you would have your imagination stimulated, there was one dinner mentioned which is somewhat reminiscent of the approaching bowling contest to be held in New York City this month. This will show how we have progressed by having the pulchritudinous "Rockettes" from Radio City burst from paper mach bowling balls, whereas the old time English gourmets were satisfied with "little black amores" who leapt lightly out of enormous pies and presented perfumed gloves to the honored guests...
...turned the platform over to a committee for further study, and many a shrewd merchant privately declared that that would be the last ever heard of it. Even then the retailers did not go home. On the next day they witnessed the distribution of prizes in a "better-selling contest" conducted by the New York Uni-versity School of Retailing. On hand to present the prizes was one of the contest's judges, Chairman Samuel Wallace Reyburn of Associated Dry Goods Corp. (not to be confused with the Texas Congressman, Sam Rayburn...
...style, Seth Heywood, Jr., of Andover and A. Greenhood of Exeter will strive for victory, as will Frank Schofield, Jr., of Moses Brown in the 100-yard free style. K. Twining of St. Gorge's will probably find T. H. Mahoney of Andover his strongest rival in the diving contest...
Escheat. In the contest for Henrietta Garrett's $20,000,000 estate is the State of Pennsylvania, which asserts there are no legal heirs, therefore the fortune must escheat, i.e., revert to the State under intestate laws. Also plugging for the money is Administrator Starr, whose claim that Mrs. Garrett's phrase "Give you" meant he should get all left after paying out $62,500 will be presented in court by former U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper, a Philadelphia lawyer. Mr. Starr has already received some Garrett snuff money. His brother, the late Isaac Starr, was named...