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Baseball's greatest batter is also baseball's iron man. Lou Gehrig is the son of a German janitor who once worked in a Columbia University fraternity house. Lou got a scholarship at Columbia when the fraternity house manager, who had become Columbia's Athletic Director, recognized Mr. Gehrig in the crowd at a high school football game in which little Louie was performing. Yankee scouts spotted him when he was still in college. On June 1, 1925, he replaced Walter Pipp at first base. From then through last week's games, Gehrig has not been...
...unprosperous artist, young Lawrence Saint worked in a wallpaper store in Pittsburgh's East End as "salesman, janitor and general pack-horse," was made color conscious by his merchandise. Against his father's advice, Lawrence Saint apprenticed himself to a stained glass artist, scrimped and saved to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this time a deep religious experience led him to join the Presbyterian Church, worry about the propriety of painting nude females. Ribald fellow students tied him up, carried him by force to a model's stand where an undraped woman...
...accepted world's record up 2 1/8 in. Born 23 years ago of Russian parents on the Island of Maui in Hawaii, he won no great notice as a San Francisco schoolboy-vaulter, none at all as a University of Oregon freshman. Flunked from college, he became a janitor in San Francisco, entered the semi-final Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles last fortnight, for the first time in his life cleared 14 ft. Fearful of losing his janitor's job, George Varoff had needed much persuasion to junket to Princeton...
...Emeritus Lowell and Charles Francis Adams named to guide Alumni at Tercentenary celebration. October 16: Student Council announces investigation of Scholarships and Student Employment as annual projects. October 21: Advocate banned by Cambridge Police. October 29: Official's turn to Police in the case of brutal assault on dormitory janitor...
...First Ames Prizes go to Gibson and Johnson. November 22: Bunker named 1939 Redbook head. November 23: Jayvees slaughter Yale 37-7. Varsity drops heartbreaker to end mediocre first season under Harlow. Conant announces plans for roving Professorships. November 27: Ryan, found guilty in janitor case, officially expelled...