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...finished for the first half when, with a minute or so left to play, Oregon State's drive stopped at Fordham's 36-yd. line. On fourth down, Schwammel dropped back for a place kick. The ball sailed through the air for 46 yd., cleared the crossbar by a bare three feet, won for Oregon State after a scoreless last half...
...desk sergeant told him not to worry about it. A guard came by and said, "Don't worry, you'll probably get off with a suspended sentence or a light fine tomorrow." When the guard came back later he found his prisoner had hanged himself to the crossbar of the cell door with his belt. Policemen who searched Oscar Winheld's home to see if he really did have some money, found none. Some of them figured that the Depression had killed Oscar Winheld...
Last week such an inventor started suit against Ford Motor Co. The inventor was Arthur L. Banker of Banker Windshield Co. In 1907 he applied for a patent on a clear-vision windshield in which the glass was held by clamps on the ends instead of by the usual crossbar. Four years later the patent was obtained, manufacturing begun. According to Mr. Banker, Henry Ford came to see the windshield, in 1913, soon used it on his cars. Between 1925 and 1928 (when the Banker patent expired), Inventor Banker claims Mr. Ford caused him $6,000,000 actual damages...
...tendency to forget. Then Graber began to trot forward, slowly, easily: suddenly his body swung up, over the knot of people, poised above them for a second at a wildly reclining angle in midair. Then he straightened, shot clear, dropped into a limp heap on the sawdust pile. The crossbar, placed at the height for a new intercollegiate record of 14 ft. ½ in., shivered but did not fall. A few minutes later, versatile Barney Berlinger of Pennsylvania (TIME, May 4), broke a tie for second place and Southern California had won the meet?46% points to Stanford...
...Harvard band at a single game. At this game also the name of the Harvard captain was spelled out for the first time. Fifteen times during the season, Slade the drum-major as well as the leader of the band, sent the long silver baton soaring over the crossbar of the goal post and each time he gracefully retrieved it. The altitude record for baton throwing was set between the halves of the William and Mary game when Slade hurled the baton over the crossbar seven feet above the uprights of the goal post to a distance estimated at approximately...