Word: delta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brunswick, Ga. to fly to Brazil. Some 27 hours later Pilot Redfern's single-motored monoplane swooped down over the Norwegian freighter Christian Krohg 200 miles out of La Guaira, Venezuela. Getting his bearings, Redfern dashed on toward South America, where he was later reported over the Orinoco Delta. Then he vanished...
OHIO UNIVERSITY'S Alumnus No. 1 is another man of huge bulk: Frank Crumit, radio network singer heard Sunday afternoons from coast to coast. A Phi Delta Theta, he once returned for a visit and gamely sang two of his own songs on a serenade program in front of Lindley Hall. To those who asked who Frank Crumit was, came the information: a jovial undergraduate with baseball and football ability, he left Ohio U. in 1912 to study music in Cincinnati. Thence, by way of vaudeville, he was featured in Broadway shows like Oh Key, Betty Be Good...
AMERICA'S Public Alumnus No. 1 is Alexander Woolicott. As late as his senior year at Hamilton College (New York), his brothers in Theta Delta Chi didn't know whether or not they should read him out of the club. Brother Alex persisted in wearing a red fez about the house. No action was taken, however, and in 1909 Woolicott received the blessing of his Alma Mater and a Ph.B. degree...
...Among the more promising collections obtained by Dr. Anderson are a Boanian holly, the hybrid Fraxinus from the Danube delta, alpine forms of the common lilac...
...played guard on the football team until a back injury forced him out of the sport. He organized a band among his classmates was graduated in 1925, and has been a hit band leader since. Art Thorsen, player and vocalist in the band was a U of C. Kappa Delta Rho and glee club man 26, Jerry Browne trumpeteer and singer a U. of C. Phi Sigma Kappa 27, Warren Lewis, U. of C. 27. All three have remained with the Brigadiers through then smart career. Now Horace Herdit and the Brigadiers are heard over CBS every Thursday night...