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Actually, only the vice-presidential spot was in contention. For that position Helen Maynard edged Joseph Green by 20 votes...
...OLGA MAYNARD Yuma, Ariz...
...College of the University of Chicago, Dean F. Champion Ward trotted out statistics to prove that Robert Maynard Hutchins' ten-year-old "Great Books" curriculum is a success. Students who have set their own pace through a Hutchins-type education, said Dean Ward, excel in almost every field. In nationwide graduate-record exams, 99% of the Chicago scholars placed in the upper third of the group. In the biological sciences, arts, vocabulary and social studies, 98% got better-than-median grades. Some 86% were above the median in physical sciences, literature, general mathematics and effective expression...
...Washington, World War II hero Maynard H. ("Snuffy") Smith, 41, who won the Medal of Honor for some cool-headed shooting and lifesaving on an Eighth Air Force bomber, was sentenced to ten days in jail for turning in a false report in a suicide hoax. Smith, it was claimed, was trying for some publicity to help boost his chances for becoming governor of Virginia. The hoax: as a young mother pretended to jump from the sixth floor of a Y.W.C.A. building, Snuffy bravely crawled out on the ledge and "persuaded" her to come back...
...Medford, Mass, last week, the radio giveaway show reached its pinnacle. Mrs. Franklin Hart correctly answered the questions put to her by Disk Jockey Dave Maynard of station WHIL and won-the radio station. As is usually the case on radio giveaways, there are some strings attached. Mrs. Hart wins the station for only one day. She gets none of the station profits but has the privilege of choosing the day's programs and having them broadcast from her own house...