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Where does all this manpower come from? Much of it is home-grown Michigan talent, attracted by State's winning ways, a $3,500,000 athletic plant* and a big and diversified college (enrollment: 14,600). Some of Munn's best players have been mined from the football-rich hills of Pennsylvania, but even Michigan State's most envious detractors admit that the Spartans beat the bushes for talent no more fervently than a lot of other colleges...
...dull and endless campaign against national "Squandermania," tried to capture readers with a series of giveaways and contests. "In a decade of brashness," says Historian Cudlipp, "the Mirror offered gentility." Rothermere also made some wrong guesses in politics, spoke kindly of Hitler, Mussolini, and even of Britain's home-grown Fascist Oswald Mosley. Gradually the paper lost readers, and in 1931 Rothermere finally stepped out, selling his shares on the open market. The Mirror was swiftly transformed. Readers accustomed to seeing features about swans on the Thames awoke one morning and found such inch-high headlines blanketing the front...
...Home-grown Hot Rods. Nash pioneered with its Nash-Healey, assembled it abroad with a British chassis, an Italian body (by Pinin Farina), and Nash engine and transmission, etc. The car was good enough to take third in the 24-hour Le Mans race in France last year, perhaps the world's toughest. Millionaire Briggs Cunningham built a car with a souped-up Chrysler engine that took fourth in the same race. Some small manufacturers, notably Britain's Allard Motor Co., built cars with Cadillac and Chrysler engines and many standard American parts and saw them lick...
Hollywood's home-grown characters got notice that they could expect some first-rate competition from abroad. Dame Edith Sitwell, 65, poet-historian-lecturer sister of Sir Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, held an audience for reporters in London and announced that she was off to California to write the screen play of her book Fanfare For Elizabeth (about Anne Boleyn and young Elizabeth). Said she: "My first scene will be most appallingly morbid. It almost frightens me. The story opens in London. Murder hovers around, and there will be an absolutely superb scene in the hospital for leprous virgins...
...Resigned as Prime Minister. 51. Home-grown troublemakers in Iran are the nationalist bully boys who take orders from bearded, anti-American...