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Barbara Stanwyck got three men and made them all miserable. Joan Crawford only corralled two, but then one was Harvard '06 and the other Yale '26. Perhaps it evens up. The general purport of the two features at the University is that this is no longer a man's world. They were done wrong--and they liked...
...Chained" the Crawford-Gable team goes at it again, and, strangely enough, Clark loses out to Otto Kruger for the moment. But before his magnanimous retreat and final conquest, he and Joan play at sweet nothing's in a boat's swimming pool, in a speakeasy's private dinning room, and in the luxurious hay of a ranch down Buenos Aires way. Stuart Erwin adds his appreciated bit to the general gayety of the sort which Mr. Gable popularized in "it Happened One Night." Of this, unfortunately, there is not enough; and presently the characters find themselves enmeshed...
...stewards of the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association canceled the amateur license of Crawford Burton, Manhattan stockbroker, steeplechaser, and one of the few men in the world to ride two winners in the Maryland Hunt Cup. Reason: He allowed his photograph in racing silks to appear in a spectacular testimonial advertisement for Camel cigarets. Victim of many a serious fall. Jockey Burton has not ridden a steeplechase since...
Roosevelt I coveted a piece of the Panamanian Isthmus and took it for a Canal. But before diggers dared pervade that fever-infested series of swamps called "White Man's Grave," Sanitarian William Crawford Gorgas went ahead, chasing away the mosquitoes. Dr. Gorgas had learned about the fever-bearing mosquitoes in Cuba where Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay had indicted the insects and Dr. Walter Reed had convicted them. Their work enabled Dr. Gorgas to help make Havana the healthiest large city in the world, the Panama Canal an actuality. Similar work practically drove yellow fever from all North America...
Those accepted as provisional members at the first trials include Mansfield Brannigan '36, John C. Budryk '38, William H. Cann '37, Morris DeC. Crawford '37, Charles C. Daughady '38, Ernest A. Gray, Jr. '37, Richard H. Harris '37, William C. Haskins '37, Howard C. Kellogg '37 Truman P. Kohman '38, Edward A. Mey er '37, Edward O. Miller '37, John F. Purcell '38, Gordon F. Robertson '36, Fitzwilliam Sargent, 3rd. '37, Philip A. Schaffer '37, Paul W. Sears '37, Joseph F. Shepard '37, William H. Smith, 2nd. '37, George H. Spencer '38, Harry F. Stimson '37, Joseph W. Valentine...