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Early one morning in Denver last week, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., Manufacturer Edward Gowan Budd (no kin), many a Burlington and Budd technician, 20 newshawks and one burro boarded Burlington's silvery new high-speed Diesel-powered train. A full third of the way across the continent in Chicago that day, A Century of Progress was opening for its second year. Clackety-clack-streamlined, shovel-nosed Zephyr slid out of the Denver yards at 6.05 a. m. While passengers settled themselves in its three articulated compartments. Zephyr picked up speed. For a while...
Lowell defeated Kirkland 3 to 2: D. V. Brown, Tutor, (K) defeated Garrett Birkhoff '32 (A) 3-1; A. W. Williams 1G (K) defeated W. A. Shurcliff 2G (L) 3-2; R. T. Wharton '32 (L) defeated T. L. Cissel 1L (K) 3-0; R. B. Gowan '33 (L) defeated G. C. Homans '32 (K), 3-1; J. C. Gray 2G (L) defeated Clinton Hebberd...
Bowditch scholarships were awarded to: M. C. Bradley Jr. '33, Leon Brooks '33, A. H. Daniels '33, R. H. Denison '33, J. L. Finan '33, F. G. Folger '33, L. J. Gillespie Jr. '33, J. C. Gowan '33, Henry Greenberg '33, A. M. Halpern '33, Samuel Horvitz '33, H. F. Kollmyer '33, Thomas McHugh '33, E. A. Macy '33, W. A. Munroe '33, G. M. Noss '33, H. L. Orentlicher '33, A. S. Pierce '33, A. H. Rosenthal '33, L. H. Saxe '31, Joseph Shack '33, Robert Shapiro '33, and S. J. Wener...
...peculiarly ingratiating about this man, I should have maintained my custom of refusing these highway requests at all times. As it was, I stopped to argue with him,") which are inconsistent with the general style and plot. But the piece breaks into splendid originality in two speeches of Tom Gowan, the lovelorn murderer, and in the conclusion, which is far better than either the sentimentalism of the one or the fatalism of the other of the two authors whom Mr. Gowdy is consciously or unconsciously imitating. Again, many of the purely descriptive passages contain figures which are unquestionably striking...
...horsewhip, is a perennially appearing subject. But here, too, there are bright spots. Mr. Henderson's local color is well painted; his realism (although I draw the line at mention of "Aunt Hitty's old entrails" being "stirred to the depths"--especially after Mr. Gowdy's remark that Jim Gowan's rival had not "a white spot in 'im from the guts up") is undeniably effective...