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From the rich soil of Kansas as many meteorites have been recovered as from Illinois, Oklahoma, Louisiana. Washington, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Nevada combined. To many a Kansan his State seems to be the favorite landing place for footloose fragments of the universe...
...longer distances, on which he specialized last year. In this week's workouts, he ran the 600 within one and four fifths seconds of the time which Fuqua, the speedy western runner, made in the K. of C. meet. The favorite in the half-mile will be Elien Brown, Kansan who won the junior national 800-meter title last year in 1:52.02. Though Bliss is not expected to heat Brown, the Harvard runner may take second place...
Curry's art is simple and dramatic. Whether he likes it or not no Kansan who has looked at his State or been to a circus can fail to recognize the authenticity of Curry's subjects. Latest Curry is a two-panel mural for the Westport High School. In Comedy Artist Curry has included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene...
...that." So said Glenn Cunningham, University of Kansas senior, as he arrived in Manhattan last week for Princeton's "perfect race." That race was to include three of the greatest milers of the day-Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke, Princeton's Bill Bonthron and Cunningham. The Kansan followed his custom of not bothering to practice. His legs, burned so badly when he was a child that doctors doubted if he would ever walk again, are too delicate to stand much preliminary pounding. The day of the race he motored to Princeton where Venzke and Bonthron had been training...
...Jackson Barnett and his wife went to Washington. His wife's lawyer was a smart young Kansan named Harold McGugin. The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, obligingly agreed to let Jackson Barnett give half a million dollars in Liberty Bonds to the Baptist Home Mission Society and another half million to Mrs. Barnett. Of the latter sum $135,000 was alleged to have gone to Lawyer McGugin...