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Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane was born in 1903 in Bridgewater, Mass. Mickey and his brother Archie (who now plays on a Ford Motor Co semiprofessional team) learned baseball almost as soon as they learned to walk but, partly because Harvard's Eddie Mahan was a hero to all New England urchins in 1915, football was Mickey Cochrane s first specialty. At Boston University his exploits of a dozen years ago are still legend. His method of practicing was to divide the squad into two sides-eleven men on one, himself on the other-and call for a kickoff...
Next morning in Butte, Mont, a policeman strolling his beat spied a man named William Mahan whom he had once arrested for bank robbery. As he approached, the man began to run. The policeman lost his quarry over a back fence and roof top. But in the Ford sedan which the man had deserted were found $15,155 worth of Weyerhaeuser ransom bills. All roads leading from Butte were promptly bottled...
...William Mahan, 32, known as a dangerous bank robber, had been paroled after a conviction in 1924, later escaped after serving seven years of a 20-year prison sentence in Boise, Idaho...
Statesmen he says "have included in their concept of national interests the loaning of money to foreign governments and corporations, the selling of American goods abroad, the establishment of branch factories abroad, and the tangible property owned by Americans in foreign countries." Admiral Mahan, he said, widened the concept of national defense to include the defense of these national interests. The difficulty with these however, is that they are often contradictory, and the national government makes no attempt as a private merchant would do to draw up some balance sheet and weigh the advantages and disadvantages. It is this idea...
Flashing a brand of football that it has shown only very rarely this season, the Varsity eleven administered a trouncing to the Blue outfit on the historic gridiron of the Stadium, and emerged victorious by the largest score since Eddie Mahan's club...