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...farm girl from David City, Neb., Ruth was singing in obscure Chicago nightclubs when she first encountered a Runyonesque character who called himself Colonel Martin Snyder. Actually, the colonel had been born Moses Snyder in a West Side slum, and the closest he had come to the military life was in the Chicago gang wars. Known familiarly as "The Gimp" because of a pronounced limp attributed to 17 shotgun slugs in his leg, Snyder soon proved his ability as a show-business Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato...
Exams and schedule commitments have forced the Department of Athletics to decline invitations to this competition, the winner of which will play in the NCAA championships scheduled for June 10-14 at Omaha, Neb. During this time the varsity plays Commencement games with Amherst and Tufts on June 10 and 11, anl Yale on June...
...nuclear plant in western Massachusetts, and hopes to have it finished by 1957. A second group of nine firms, including Detroit Edison Co., has asked permission to build another 100,000-kw. plant in the Detroit area by 1958. A third planner, Consumers Public Power District of Columbus, Neb., plans to have a 75,000-kw. nuclear reactor running in Nebraska a year later, while still a fourth group, including Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., wants to build a bigger 180,000-kw. nuclear power plant near Chicago...
Richard J. Manning '55, of Winthrop House and Pittsburgh, Pa., received the most valuable player award, and Robert E. Barnett '57, of Winthrop House and Lincoln, Neb., was named the most improved player on the squad...
...routine flight from Des Moines to Lincoln, Neb. three weeks ago, United Air Lines flight 329 ran into the kind of trouble that usually means death. Climbing west over Iowa, the twin-engined Convair went out of control and nosed down...