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¶ In Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, Clyde Deer, 230-lb. guard, was sipping his breakfast coffee near the cell block of desperate prisoners when he suddenly was set upon with clubs by seven convicts headed by Life Termers Jim Clark and Bob Brady. Participants in the Memorial Day jail...
A few minutes later they seized a school-teacher named Louis Dresser who was just starting to school in his car, drove south with him all day and all night. Next morning at a crossroads in Oklahoma they met by prearrangement a car with Texas license plates driven by a...
Many a citizen of Lansing. Mich. (pop. 80,000) despaired of adult education in his city last May when lack of funds shut down the municipally-financed evening school. But such defeatists reckoned without Try. (for Trygve) Narvesen, Norwegian-born secretary of the local Y. M. C. A.
By last week Try. Narvesen's three-month-old "People's University" had 2,615 enthusiastic students, 71 teachers. The students paid nothing for their schooling and the teachers received nothing for their instruction. Founder Narvesen had just added a twenty-first building to his rent-free campus...
Slogan of Try. Narvesen's salesmanship course is "If you can SELL-well-nearly all is well." He proved that proposition to bewildered Lansingites before the course started. When he had finished talking to them, Lansing manufacturers, preachers, city officials, bankers found they had been "sold" on the idea...