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...great interest as it is the first trial which the University vaulters will have this year in preparation for the meet on Saturday. Oscar Sutermeister '32 won the fall handicap meet from scratch, and should annex a place in this one. The distance runs follow: The three-quarter until grind at 3.20 o'clock; the 600-yard run at 3.30 with H. F. Kellmeyer '33 as a likely the victor, and the 1000-yard race at 3.45 o'clock. Ten minutes later the 300-yarders will too the mark, with N. P. Dodge '88 as a possible winner...
...good reason for "Uncle Dan" to sympathize with the 500,000 men laid off railroads in the past two years. The business depression of 1883 took him out of his cab, put him to work as a conductor on the Soo. From conductor he started up the long grind of a rail-road operating man's career: trainmaster, assistant superintendent, superintendent...
...over and clarify in a fresh stream of impressions. The principal works are usually begun in the vac, then given considerable attention in a series of essays, then browsed over at odd times. Some months later they will again form the staple of vacation review preliminary to the final grind...
Steel- The high mortality among propaganda plays would seem to occur, not because the theatre is no whetstone on which to grind axes, but because when a playwright sets out to champion something he usually loses all his sense of humor and proportion, together with his head, in excoriating the Other Side. Having acquired well-deserved kudos for his first play, The Last Mile, John Wexley has now broken a lance against the boiler-plated sides of the steel industry. This he does by presenting the sad case of Joe Raldny (Paul Guilfoyle), a young resident of Ironton...
...well aware was 32-year-old Candi- date Ingalls that he has an uphill grind before him, that his chances of success are none too large. Said he frankly: "I know it will be a hard fight but I'll be in there to win." What will probably help him most is the engaging friendliness of his public manner. When he answers his telephone at the Navy Department, he says simply: "Hello?Dave Ingalls." His immediate superior booms out: "Hello! This is Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary, United States Navy, speaking...