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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve colleges will be represented in the duelling fiesta, will Navy in the favorite's role ahead of defending champion N. Y. U., Rene Peroy's well-balanced Crimson nine man squad, and the Army swordsmen. The tournament promises to be packed with thrills with three now champions to be crowned and four topnotch universities battling it out for team honors. The absence through graduation of most of last year's men virtually throws the two-day affair into three wide-open races...
This week the longest (328 pages) English-language biography of Physicist Albert Einstein, now the most distinguished resident of Princeton, N. J., was published by H. Gordon Garbedian, a science writer on the staff of the New York Times.* Brightest spots in Mr. Garbedian's book are the Einstein anecdotes. Samples...
Died. Ernest ("Ernie") Hare, 55, baritone half of the Happiness Boys, oldtime radio harmony team; of bronchopneumonia; in Queens, N. Y. Old hands in show business, Ernie Hare and Tenor Billy Jones were hired by WJZ in 1921 for a song-and-patter experiment. Next year, as the Happiness Boys, singing the virtues of Happiness Candy, engaging in ad lib patter and chatter, they became the first nationally known radio team...
...Trenton, N. J., Rocco Favorito & wife, convicted of conspiracy to defraud, declared before the State Supreme Court that as man & wife they were legally one, therefore could not be guilty of conspiracy. The Court ruled that man & wife are legally...
...N. B. Members of the House Committee will be available during these hours to talk informally with candidates who may wish to discuss general house activities...