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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Opie Read, 86, homespinning Tennessee wit, last of the Mark Twain school, "greatest literary shortstop of his time"; of old age; in Chicago, Ill. Huge, gangling Opie Read wrote 55 books, edited the once famed humorous paper, The Arkansas Traveler. Like Oklahoma Wit Will Rogers, he belittled his own peculiarities by exaggerating those of others. Example: When a relative entered politics, said towering Opie Read: "He was so big that they didn't put him on a stump. They dug a hole for him to stand...
...biggest upset was Emery Wingerter's performance. The Cornell Senior cannily rated himself well off the pace in the early stages of the run, worked himself up into first shortly after the half-way mark, and blasted across the finish line three seconds ahead of Yale's Bill Watson...
Very much the family man, Artist Bohrod just after his son's birth painted a store sign, "Bohrod & Son. Est. 1934," into a picture. Curly-headed Son Mark is now saving pennies to buy his father a paint brush for his birthday. A highlight of the current show is Still Life with Ferdinand, the toys Mark chose when Aaron asked him what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn...
...addition to experimenting with alleviating drugs, doctors have long plotted various surgical operations to combat angina attacks, but they have all fallen short of the mark...
Although both the Yale and Princeton cross country teams have been beaten this year, the Nassau runners lost only to a powerhouse N.Y.U. outfit and boast two dangerous men in Dave Little and Ed Burrows, who set a new Princeton 880 mark as a Freshman last year...