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...Winner: curly-haired Johnny Revolta of Evanston, Ill., onetime (1935) P.G.A. champion, with a score of 276 (69, 68, 71, 68)-twelve under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Haig & Haig | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...trustees announced that they had chosen Dr. Rice to take over the job of Japan-born President Edmund Davison Soper, 60. Dr. Soper, whose resignation after a ten-year incumbency was preceded by rumors of friction with alumni, will teach religious history next year at Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rice for O. W. U. | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

John E. Massengale, 3rd., 16, of Evanston; Evanston Township High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 34 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

Last week two Midwestern surveys on drinking drivers were issued. Records of two Evanston hospitals showed that of 300 drivers who had been in wrecks causing injury, 24% were intoxicated (at least one part alcohol to 1,000 parts blood). A survey by Northwestern University's Traffic Safety Institute showed that of 2,000 drivers examined, only 4.2% were intoxicated. Comparison of the two figures demonstrated the extent to which alcohol is a factor in traffic accidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tipsy Drivers | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease their nightly nuisances, by making their dormitories sound like fire stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bed-Wetters Belled | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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