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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Eric Peet, 36, National A. A. U. senior singles four-wall hardball handball champion in 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937; of a heart attack while playing handball; in Brooklyn, N...
Much like the late Elihu Root, who knew every leaf of its venerable trees, is 126-year-old Hamilton College (425 students), which stands on a plateau near Clinton, N. Y. overlooking the Mohawk and Oriskany valleys. Like Statesman Root the classical character of this stanch old institution, named after Alexander Hamilton, its first trustee, is illustrated in the apocryphal story that its quarterbacks call signals in the language of Euclid. The College has not fallen in with the parade of modern big-time intercollegiate athletics, it still has a rule against drinking, it proudly rejected the National Youth Administration...
There were no volunteers. But Manhattan sportswriters suggested saloon-keeping, beer-drinking Tony Galento, first-rate heavyweight who is just half Gargantua's size (230 lb.), as a fair match for the simian. At his saloon in Orange, N. J., Tony Galento "deeply regretted" the suggestion. Meanwhile, in the merry ribbing that followed, no one had taken the trouble to look in his Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he would have discovered that a gorilla has 13 pairs of ribs, one pair more than...
...Loch Ness Monster Co. Captain Munro announced that he would soon issue shilling shares to finance active research. He proposes to build three lookout towers, each equipped with a telephoto camera, range finder, stop watch, powerful binoculars, sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North Sea via the Caledonian Canal; 2) a hippopotamus; 3) a 50-ft. prehistoric reptile with a whiskery...
...least of Dr. Wood's fun has been exposing sundry scientific quacks and frauds. Most celebrated case: about 35 years ago, the scientific world was excited by the reported discovery of a mysterious radiation, called "N-rays," by a certain Professor Blondlot of France. Professor Blondlot could not explain the source of the "N-rays'' but he declared that if they were passed through a prism they would cause an electric spark to brighten visibly...