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Anybody who needs in ichthyologist, a marine, an actuarian, a piano tuner, a vagrant, or a grocer should consult the Senior Class. What is more, these are not the only unusual careers chosen by the 1075 members of the Class of 1936 who will appear in the Album...
...another year George T. Skinner will be a marine; Richard P. Bissell, a professional baseball player; Hyman Goldenstein, a vagrant; Paul C. Tiffany, an ichthyologist; Otto W. Sprague, a grocer; and William H. Durfee, an actuarian...
Knockabout. Smallest (6 ft., 1 ½ in.) of five sons of a Finnish miner in Crystal Falls, Mich., Emil Hurja had left home at 16, hoboed his way West. He had sampled his luck in Butte, Mont., Yakima, Wash., Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle, worked as a grocer's delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska...
...many a prodigy, young Marjorie Edwards is a natural, unthwarted person who rides a bicycle, collects stamps, wishes she could tap dance better than she does, reveres Yehudi Menuhin. Her father is an automobile salesman in San Jose, her mother a piano teacher who has given lessons to the grocer's child and taken food for pay. Young Marjorie drummed out piano scales long before she was given her first violin. But the fiddle revealed her talent. At 9 she had progressed so far that she was taken the 60 miles to San Francisco several times a week...
...Handing down his opinion in Des Moines. where Bank Night has been so popular that police and fire departments had to be called out sometimes to control theatre crowds, Justice Leon Powers last week showed a more than judicial understanding of the matter. He pointed out that a grocer could legally give away candy to children to increase his trade, might determine by lot which child to give his candy to. so long as no consideration was required of any of the children for sharing in the chance...