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...semi-invalid racked with stomach trouble and boils, Darwin retired to the country, rarely budged for 40 years. It took him 20 years to work up nerve enough to publish the Origin of Species...
Married. Vera Reynolds, onetime cinemactress; to Robert Ellis, cinemauthor; in Los Angeles. Married eleven years ago, they found their marriage legally invalid, quarreled. She sued him for $150,000 for breach of promise. Friends persuaded them to settle the suit by being married again...
Ample consolation for Stepp this year, though, was the unofficial time for Princeton's disqualified 300-yard medley relay team. 2:53.5 was the clocking, a world's record, invalid because Al Van de Weghe, Tiger backstroker, failed to touch the wall with his hand as he negotiated a somersault turn in the first leg. The Nassan mermen were rather bitter about the ruling, for Van de Weghe, is notorious for touching as much as two feet below the surface, a practice which makes it very difficult for the judge on turns to see what's going...
...other Crimson invalid, Red Lowman, although still strapped up extensively, will be able to go in at a starting post, having warmed up his injured arm for a few minutes against Columbia. Princeton, on the other hand, will be in top physical shape, since long absent Captain Vruwink has returned to the lineup...
...suing for payment in gold dollars in the Court of Claims. Before the Court have been three cases, rising indirectly from the original gold clause decisions. In these holders of Liberty Bonds, marked payable in gold but called for redemption in "legal tender," contended that the redemption call was invalid, hence that the Government still owes interest on the bonds. This week, these three cases-two of them brought by Cincinnati's Lawyer Robert A. Taft, son of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft-were decided. By a majority of 6-to-3, the Court once again upheld...