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Died. Robert Digges Wimberly Connor, 71, first Archivist of the U.S. (1934-41); in Durham, N.C. A University of North Carolina history professor and a onetime Archivist of the State of North Carolina, Connor was already an old hand at old documents when Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to the task of assembling in Washington's brand-new Archives Building a mountain of scattered records...
...varsity rifle team defeated the University of New Hampshire at Durham, N.H. Saturday in a shoulder-to-shoulder match by to score 1358 to 1345. The Crimson's Paul Shuttleworth was high man for the match with a score...
...still cater to anti-Negro prejudice, thus flagrantly ignoring their responsibilities both for better newspapers and better race relations . . . [However], in addition to such "laudable exceptions" as the Chattanooga Times, I certainly wish to include the Nashville Banner . . . And surely the Greensboro daily News, the Charlotte Observer and the Durham Herald, all published in North Carolina, deserve honorable recognition, as does the Columbia (S.C.) Record...
...Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (Bull Durham, Duke's Mixture, Lucky Strikes) stood upon a hill three miles west of Durham, N.C. and silently gazed out over the wooded acres about him. Finally he turned to his companion and said: "This is the place...
Slickers & Roadsters. Benefactor Duke had put up an initial $6,000,000 to provide a new 8,000-acre campus for Durham's Trinity College (provided it changed the name to Duke). He wanted the architecture to be Gothic ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me"). He ordered a huge chapel with 77 stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon, and a tower modeled after one at Canterbury. He wanted schools of medicine, law and divinity. He planned a hospital with 416 beds, a stadium big enough for 35,000 spectators, a student union complete...