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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kolliner '38 had the chief feminine low-life part, and Roger F. Duncan '39 that of the main male comic, Sergeant Kite
...screen the Mauchs' main defects are their Midwest accents. Their major assets are energy, lack of precocity and a wholesome distaste for showing off, which prevents them from trying to steal scenes like most of their contemporaries...
Handicapped by a soggy track and cold weather on the second day of the meet, when most of the main events were run, the Drake Relays failed to produce even a meet record. In the one and a half-mile feature race, little Archie San Romani of Kansas State Teachers College outran both Rideout twins, who finished shoulder to shoulder, by 200 yds. Outstanding individual performance was that of a Drake sophomore who gave the home team two victories in its own carnival...
With tears, sneers, shouts and two swoons (by Sister Aimee), the case was argued, no one sticking very long to the main point. After brief deliberation, Judge Clarence Kincaid decided that Daughter Roberta had been slandered $2,000 worth, warned everyone concerned against continuing "such warfare." The advice was not heeded. This week Sister Aimee, like Father Divine (see above), was to appear again in court. This time she is defendant in a $1,080,000 slander suit brought by Sister Rheba. Since the line-up of witnesses will be about the same, the anti-Aimee faction took hope from...
...unlucky because she was named after a goddess (of the hearth). She had run aground, collided with a Russian ship, caught fire. Now they were waiting off Celebes to replace a captain who had just died full of ominous mutterings. Into this Conrad-like setting Author Tomlinson introduces as main character of Pipe All Hands lean, elderly...