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Every so often, newspaperdom becomes agitated over Free Publicity, which is the game between producers and publishers. When the two sides are evenly matched, producers get themselves or their products or services mentioned in public print, without charge, in exact proportion to their news value. Determining that value is, of course, almost entirely up to the publisher. A potent factor, however, is retaining the producer's goodwill so that he will buy advertising space. Feuds arising out of the Free Publicity game are often as not entirely within the publisher's province, between the advertising and editorial departments...
Married. Irving K. Pond, 72, of Chicago, architect, acrobat, first footballer to score a touchdown for University of Michigan in an intercollegiate game; and Miss Katherine N. de Nancrede, of Ann Arbor. Mich., in Ann Arbor, where Mr. Pond's college class was having its 50th reunion. Architect Pond, who prides himself and takes joy in his septuagenarian handsprings and back somersaults (TIME, May 16, 1927, et seq.), said (of his marriage) : "It's the first time I ever did it. I think I ought to be pardoned because of my youth...
John Norton Smith is an extremely dour Scot from Fifeshire where normally he is a carpenter*. No brilliance attends his game but only the grimmest determination. His idiosyncrasies: chalking the face of his wooden clubs with blue chalk, waxing the handle of his irons before the difficult shot. To Cyril Tolley who won it at Muirfield nine years ago again went the championship. He, a links behemoth, has obtained most fame from his prodigious drives. In 1923 at Troon he drove to the green on a 350-yard hole. Last week his drives were still spectacular and, rare...
Since their last split, after their 1926 football game, Harvard and Princeton have not participated in dual contests in any sport. Last week, however, sportsmen thought they saw first signs of a rapprochement in these two occurrences: Princeton Athletic Director Charles W. Kennedy was invited to officiate at the Harvard-Yale v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He accepted. Harvard Athletic Director William J. Bingham was invited to officiate at the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He too accepted...
...real fielding sensations though were provided by Bassett, diminutive Crimson centerfielder, who made two seemingly impossible catches in the fifth to gain the biggest hand of the entire game...