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Almost every college has its campus character?a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder...
Born. To Alfred Cecil Durban, onetime British newsboy, and Mrs. (Vivienne Maud Huntington) Durban, daughter of the late Manhattan Architect Charles Pratt Huntington, heiress to part of the fortune of the late Railman Collis Potter Huntington; a daughter. 10 lb.; in Logansport, Ind., where the Durbans sought to hide from the public eye. Name: Frances Charlotte...
Born: at Ticonic, Iowa, May 10. 1877. Start ; life: newsboy in Sioux City, Iowa. Career: While selling papers he attended Sioux City public and high schools, went to Beloit College, Wis. (1899). In 1901 he moved to Yankton, S. Dak., became and remained small-town banker. In 1902 he married Harriet R. Reustle, whom he met at Beloit (children: William Henry Jr., Dorothy). Moderately wealthy, he turned to politics, got into the Legislature in 1911. He became State senator (1913-17), lieutenant-governor (1917-21), governor...
Oberammergau lies in a valley of those Alps, a town of ornate chalets inhabited chiefly by woodcarvers who combine medieval craftsmanship with modern salesmanship, who ship their whittlings all over the world. Over the town looms the jagged Kofel peak; in the town a bearded newsboy, attired in plus fours, sells his papers from a motorcycle. It is a town of anachronisms but the Passion Play is still its overtone...
...plains town, with a population of 8,000, Mr. H. D. Strunk, of the McCook Daily Gazette, is pioneering and promoting an Air Adventure-namely, delivering newspapers via the airplane to 43 neighboring villages and schools, every evening over a 380 mi. route. He calls his airplane the "Newsboy." It has been running since last September...