Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frosty Peters of Illinois ran punts back half a field's length and threw passes that made rooks of Kansas' Jayhawks...
Edward Anderson ("Eddie") Stinson. flyer and plane manufacturer, and Errett Lobban ("E. L.") Cord, motor car manufacturer, celebrated their 35th birthdays nine days apart last July. Both have achieved large business success in their fields. But last week Mr. Stinson acknowledged Mr. Cord to be the greater executive. He did that by recommending that stockholders in his Stinson Aircraft Corp. sell out to the Cord Corp., by stating explicitly: "E. L. Cord has been one of the outstanding figures in the automotive industry during the past five years. ... He now intends to enter the aviation field in his usual forceful...
...choice for president, knowing profitable White policies would be continued. The first statement of the new president confirmed this, saying, "The White Motor Co. is enjoying prosperity at this time, as a result of Mr. White's able leadership. . . . Our position of leadership in the truck and bus field has been strengthened...
Scared Football Players. At Tuscaloosa, Ala. (not to be confused with Tuskeegee, Ala., site of the Tuskeegee Institute for Negroes), the University of Alabama football squads were practicing last week on a rainy, soggy field. Football is their very serious occupation, for every university student pays $13.50 for the support of athletics (and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land, but flew away when...
...FIELD OF HONOR-Donn Byrne-Century ($2.50). That politics could sever a young married couple is possible but not probable in our times. The late Donn Byrne, like most romanticists, was driven into the past to make his thesis believable. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett McCarthy Dillon lived in the Ireland of Napoleon's day. When Garrett announced that duty called him to the aid of England's Lord Castlereagh, Mrs. Dillon declared that she would have none of her husband if he insisted on serving a man who had caused her pro-Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless...