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...Canton's McKinley High School: a football game (35-to-0) against Massillon High; thereby breaking a winning streak of 52 games; before a crowd of 22,000; at Massillon, Ohio. Same day, ex-Massillon Coach Paul Brown, who made the Massillon Tigers into the country's most famed scholastic eleven (TIME, Nov. 2), saw his Ohio State University footballers lick Michigan, 21-to-7, for the Western Conference ("Big Ten") championship...
Illinois's able, forward-looking Representative Everett McKinley Dirksen came up last week with a clear-cut, logical remedy for the time wasted by Army, Navy and Administration bigwigs in giving duplicate testimony before Senate and House committees. His proposal: establish a joint committee on military and naval affairs and appropriations...
This week versatile, 53-year-old Howard Lindsay and puckish, 49-year-old Russel McKinley ("Buck") Crouse had three gold mines on Broadway: Strip for Action (which they wrote), Life With Father (which they adapted), Arsenic and Old Lace (which they produced). They had behind them three musicomedy successes (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue, Hooray for What!). With no failures in six tries, they represent as big a money team as Broadway can boast...
...office of the President of the United States was an upstairs study when Rudolph Forster became a temporary clerk in the White House in 1897. McKinley kept him on, and so has every President since. He has broken in each new President to the White House routine, served as handyman, tutor, adviser, informal ready-reference, and casual White House historian-for the President's ears. If he wanted to he could write an inside-dope book to end all inside-dope books. Last week the President took official cognizance of 70-year-old Rudy Forster's approach...
...Schurman, 88, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1925-30), longtime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Canadian-born he joined the Cornell faculty at the age of 32 as head of the department of philosophy, became president at 38. On leaves, he headed McKinley's first U.S. Philippine Commission in 1899, was Taft's Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912. He resigned from Cornell in 1920, was appointed Harding's Minister to China in 1921. As Coolidge's Ambassador to Germany he plumped hard for its rehabilitation, raised...