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Into the judges' stand trooped the irate 52, to fight it out with Managing Director Clifford W. Henderson and Contest Chairman Ephraim Watkins ("Pop") Cleveland. As their leader, the pilots delegated Designer E. Matthew Laird. Said Pilot Howard afterward: "If Mattie says we fly, we'll fly. If he says keep the ships on the ground, well do that." Both sides agreed to arbitrate. Meanwhile the racers flew...
Perched on a mountainside 20 mi. from Denver is the old mining town of Central City (pop. 570). Last week Central City saw more excitement than it had known since the gold rush. Editor G. M. Laird cleaned his presses, published a special edition of the Register-Call. Tourists bought rusty miners' tools as souvenirs, posed for tintypes, stopped for drinks at a resurrected saloon. Bustled women and men in ancient beavers crowded the narrow street in front of Central City's opera house, watched Frederic McFarlane present the keys of the house to Chancellor Frederick Maurice Hunter...
...summary: HARVARD ANDOVER Fletcher, r.f. l.f., Sweet Fitzpatrick, Rial, l.f. r.f., Laird, Cummins Boys, Zimmerman, c. c., Corrigan, Mayo Drimmer, Martin, r.g. l.g., Mailey Stephen, Moore, l.g. r.g., Weller...
Score--Harvard 29, Andover 22. Goals Harvard; Fletcher 6, Fitzpatrick 4, Boys 18, Drimmer 4. Andover; Sweet 8. Corrigan 2, Weller 6, Mailey 6. Personal fouls Rial 1, Drimmer 2, Martin 2, Laird 2, Cummins 1. Corrigan 2, Mailey 2. Referee Parker. Time two 20-minute periods...
...GIRL TO BREAK DATE. PRESIDENT GEORGE BARTON CUTTEN. NO ANTIBEARDIST. SPORTED A FULL BEARD WHILE PROMINENT MEMBER OF YALE '98 FOOTBALL TEAM. SURVEY OF COLGATE FACULTY REVEALS SEVEN BEARDISTS AND TWENTY-ONE MUSTACHERS AMONG ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS. PROMINENT BEARDISTS ARE WILLIAM HENRY CRAWSHAW, DONALD ANDERSON LAIRD, ALBERT PERRY BRIGHAM, JOSEPH FRANK MCGREGORY. NO BEARDIST SINCE HIS COLLEGE DAYS, ACADIA-TRAINED PRESIDENT CUTTEN HAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OF FIVE CLEAN-SHAVEN, EIGHT MUSTACHERS AND ONE BEARDIST...