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...their ten opponents this season only a few will be from other colleges because of the fact that besides Harvard, only Yale and Princeton have teams here in the cast. Pennsylvania used to have a team; and Gar Davidson started one for his football players at West Point. But these have gone and only the Big Three remain...
...Norman Thomas, wife of the Socialist, and Mrs. Francis Patrick Gar- van, wife of the Chemical Foundation's philanthropic lawyer-president, both breed fine cockers on Long Island, both had entries in last week's Westminster. But the best of the show's 205 cockers, jet-black Champion Torohill Smoky, belonged to Mrs. Garvan's 15-year-old son Peter, a Millbrook School fourth-former who has devoted his vacations for three years to feeding, grooming and exercising...
Elimination did not stop when the race began. Gar Wrood's Northrop Gamma, with Pilot Joe Jacobsen alone aboard, lost a wing as it was streaking across Kansas. Thrown free, Pilot Jacobsen was knocked unconscious, came to just in time to pull his ripcord, float safely to earth as his plane caught fire, exploded...
...working Woods are active in Gar Wood Industries, led by Gar Wood, who is president. Brother Winfield is manager of the Minneapolis branch. Brother Logan is vice president & general manager. Brother George is the industrial engineer, Brother Edward the experimental engineer. Brother Louis the chief engineer. Brother Philip is manager of the Canadian subsidiary across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont. Brother Clinton, baby of the family, is manager of the Highland Park plant. And the Brothers Wood make money. Last week they announced that their business for the past twelve months ran 40% above the same previous period, that...
...Gar Wood considers himself a mechanic. On the top of his Miami Beach home he built a mechanized observatory which is an amateur astronomer's dream. He calls speedboat racing a "mechanic's game." To the Chippewa Indians on a Canadian island opposite his summer home in Algonac, Mich., Gar Wood is Chief Kezhee-Neebe (Swift Water). Lanky, gaunt Chief Swift Water attends tribal festivities regularly, though in his initiation, which included finger pricking and the usual peace pipe, the feathers were omitted because the Gar Wood pate is never covered...