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...Correspondent Albert Leitch handed him a fresh script, straightened him out. Cotton Ed chugged off again. Huffing & puffing through his old-style planter's mustache, old DuRant concluded his oration, turned to Leitch and bawled: "How'd I do?" A flushed engineer threw a switch, took Cotton...
When U. S. golfers were winning British titles, the Women's Championship was one they never got. Cecil Leitch and Joyce Wethered together won it seven times in eight years. Last British golfer to win the U. S. Women's Championship was Gladys Ravenscroft. She did it in 1913. Pam Barton's victory last week establishes her clearly as No. 1 golfer of her sex. She won the British championship, with most of America's best players entered, last May. Said she last week: "I'll be back next year...
After many a mass meeting, Chicago's 14,000 long unpaid and now embattled school teachers had by last week become an active organization, with an "All-City Publicity Committee" headed by Teacher Mary L. Leitch of Hyde Park High School, with Lawyer Aaron Sapiro of Chicago & Manhattan as counsel. Three weeks ago the teachers received $2,224,143 in real cash, bringing their salaries up to April 1. Last fortnight the Chicago Herald & Examiner obtained from Germany by telephoto a letter from junketing Mayor Anton Cermak authorizing the issuance of $6,750,000 of tax anticipation warrants, some...
...Wethered seldom bothers to play in tournaments any more, the British Women's National played without her last week at Broadstone was little more than a series of illustrations of how well or badly England's golfstresses had mastered their copybook. Mrs. Herbert Guedalla, who as Edith Leitch sometimes used to give Miss Wethered a close match, seemed formidable until a red-cheeked girl named Diana Fishwick put her out in the semifinal. In the final Miss Fishwick played Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath whose game, like her name, moved with the jolly confident rhythm...
...James Bumgardner Murphy, life member at Rockefeller Institute, as he described the experiments leading to his theory that cancer is caused by a ferment inside the body. The adherents of Dr. William Ewart Gye, famed propounder of the virus theory (TIME, July 27, 1925) were antagonistic; Dr. Archibald Leitch of the London Cancer Hospital, whose experiments corroborated Researcher Murphy's, approved...