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...haired, six foot one inch Freshman brought a very impressive record with him from Logansport, Indians, where he starred last year. He was chosen on an all-Indiana squad of ten, no mean honor in the basketball-mad Middle West. This team was scheduled to play an all-Kentucky team around the first of September, but Fansler couldn't participate because he was at Summer School here...
Into U.S.O. fund headquarters in Logansport, Ind., fortnight ago, came two hot, weary young Americans wearing the blue-grey uniform of the R.A.F. One of them, decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, carried a barracks bag; the other, badly in need of a shave, had only his empty pipe for duffle. Could they get a meal...
Toast of the Town. Hospitable Logansport went into a tailspin over its newfound heroes. First they were sent to a local restaurant with a blanket order for all they could eat. The Deputy Prosecutor, Kenesaw M. Landis II (nephew of the baseball commissioner), who had questioned them, took them home with him. The Elks gave a dance in their honor. Members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Elks, Eagles, Knights of Columbus and Rotary Club got together to plan a giant shindig...
...married pretty, blue-eyed Louise Eckert, daughter of a Logansport saloonkeeper, moved her into the green-trimmed white farmhouse. The downstairs was expanded and slicked up a bit, but the old overstuffed furniture with the carefully placed antimacassars remained, and is there still...
Beef Trust. In 1928, two big men, Frank McHale and Bowman ("Bo") Elder journeyed to the American Legion convention in San Antonio. (McHale weighs 290 Ibs., Elder 310 Ibs.) Frank McHale was a Logansport lawyer who had played mighty football for Michigan (where his scrawny little brother in Sigma Chi, Frank Murphy, hero-worshipped him), and Bo Elder was the Legion's national treasurer. To these two it was important that they get the handsome, prematurely white-haired young dean of the University of Indiana Law School elected national commander of the Legion. They did so by shrewdly lining...