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...only Crimson swimmer entered in the meet, Norris took third place ahead of Emile Estoclet of Yale and Roger Watts of Iowa State. Norris won the Eastern title last week in 19:40.6. Housner, last year's NCAA winner, was clocked in 19:04.8 last night, Sala Awam the race...
...prove to Iowa legislators that hog cholera virus might kill hogs but was harmless to human beings, the Iowa Farm Bureau's Attorney Carl ¶ Stephens downed a swig on the spot. He suffered no ill effects, but (as a possible carrier of hog cholera) was urged to stay away from hogs for at least 19 days. ¶ Shoving an 1,000-ton barge, the Federal Barge Lines' diesel towboat Harry Truman chuffed valiantly from New Orleans to St. Louis, failed by one hour and 17 minutes to match the 79-year-old record (three days...
...Conductor Mitchell, one of the U.S.'s youngest, knows his orchestra and its instruments pretty well. He started out as a hot-lips trumpeter, was persuaded at 15 to switch to cello by the high-school orchestra instructor back in Sioux City, Iowa. Six months later, he had won a statewide cello contest. After scholarships at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory and at Curtis, he settled down to buzz and bow under Kindler. Two years ago, when Kindler was ill, Mitchell got his first chance to conduct the National Symphony, made an able understudy's success. His appointment...
Watts, an assistant professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is a graduate of the University of Iowa...
Died. John Sanburn Phillips, 87, genial, Iowa-born editor credited with developing more prominent writers than any other editor of his generation; after long illness; in Goshen, N.Y. A partner (with Samuel S. McClure) in one of the first U.S. newspaper syndicates (1886), Phillips hired Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain * among his first contributors, later helped publish and manage McClure's Magazine, founded the American Magazine...