Word: kan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James A, Naismith, 69, director of physical education at University of Kansas since 1898, originator of the game of basketball 40 years ago, slipped & fell in the bathtub in his Lawrence, Kan. home and broke two ribs. He was a teacher in the Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield, Mass. when he originated basketball, first played by teams of seven players with a soccer football and ordinary conical peachbaskets. The idea of the game spread faster than the rules, and each section of the U. S. played its own brand until the game was standardized...
...would not serve against the French because France had been his adopted home.) The dashing Baron came to the U. S. in 1910 as a pilot of the French entry in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. He met Frances Scoville, daughter of a Seneca, Kan. banker, married her three years later in London. She died in 1920 leaving a daughter, Mary, who is now 17, in school at Aiken, S. C. By returning to Germany at the outbreak of the War Baron von Mumm sacrificed his prosperous wine business. Afterward he could salvage little of his fortune, lost what...
...Howard, Kan., Tom Thompson, 50 years editor of the Howard Courant, was given a golden jubilee party by Kansas editors. Inspirer of the celebration was Editor Fred Flory of the Howard Citizen. The Courant is the Citizen's rival, but they share one office. For mutual economy Editor Flory prints the Courant on the Citizen press. One window of the office bears the Citizen's name, the other the Courant...
...taken to Kingsley Hall Settlement House, whose fluttering proprietress, a Miss Muriel Lester, had been eagerly awaiting him for weeks (TIME, July 13). Among the volunteer workers of the Settlement House eager to skim the Mahatma's goat's milk were the Misses Frances Perry of Topeka, Kan., Mildred Osterhaut of Vancouver, B. C. and Camille Solomon of No. 552 West 150th Street, New York...
First dog in the Whitney Collection was 0. B. Oilman's Idahurst Lofty, considered the best cocker spaniel in America. Nearby stands Bernice of White Isle, a near perfect bloodhound and Togo, Alas kan sled dog. Togo is the only non-champion admitted. He won fame sledging serum with Leonhard Seppala to diphtheria infected Nome (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). Mrs. Kaare Nansen, the onetime Mrs. Edward P. Ricker, dog racer of Poland Springs, Me. gave Togo to the museum...