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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brand new in the East, commercial broadcasts of football games have long been standard practice in the West. There Associated Oil Co. ("Let's Get Associated") has broadcast Pacific Coast Conference football for ten seasons. Preparing for its eleventh, in which it will pay about $100,000 for around 100 games, Associated will send its 22 broadcasters to a two-day meeting at San Francisco. Pacific Coast Conference Football Supervisor Herb Dana will explain the new rules, coaches their new plays. The Southwest Conference takes in a minimum of $14,000 a season and $500 for each game broadcast...
Because of three spectacular withdrawals, his competitors were less formidable than they were in last year's Bendix Race when Pilot Howard flew Mister Mulligan to victory only 24 seconds ahead of Colonel Roscoe Turner. Fortnight ago, Colonel Turner cracked up on the way East for the race, was hospitalized with minor hurts. Flyer S. J. Wittman also had to quit on the way East when his plane caught fire at Cheyenne. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, designer of the world's fastest pursuit ship, was refused permission by the Army to fly it in the Bendix Race...
...woman- Louise McPhetridge Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across the U. S. in 14 hr. 54 min. 49 sec., beating by 3 hr. 30 min. the women's East-West record set by Laura Ingalls last year (TIME, July 15, 1935). Miss Ingalls, ahead of her old record, came in second in a Lockheed Orion...
Author Tunis likewise surveyed the reports of the Class of 1911 at Yale and Princeton. Mathematically average Yale-man of 1911, he found, "is a lawyer in New York, with an office downtown, and a house above the Grand Central on a side street east of Fifth Avenue. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian." His Princeton counterpart is 46, "in business with an office in lower Manhattan, lives in Montclair, N. J., has two children. He has seen every Yale game since the War." As stanchly Republican as their Harvard contemporaries, Yale and Princeton men will support Landon...
With a wave of his straw hat, gracious, gangling Director George Harold Edgell, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts stepped into the gondola of a police motor-cycle at Cunard's Pier in East Boston last month and went popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last winter...