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Requests for groups are numerous. In response to one of these four foreign students spoke on Germany, Russia, China, and India. At the Burroughs Newsboy Foundation one evening R. S. Ogden '31 spoke on football, M. T. Hill '32 on tennis, L. C. Winter '31 on fencing, and L. L. Wadsworth Jr. '30 on hockey...
...foundling with only six weeks' formal education, a newsboy who made $3.50 selling "extras" of the Lincoln assassination, Lobbyist Carroll confided that his career as a railroad lobbyist for the Burlington began at Jefferson City, Mo. Said...
More than 60 years ago a curiosity-consumed railroad newsboy, puttering with chemicals in a baggage car, set the car on fire. At the next station, Smith's Creek, he was thrown off the train by a fuming conductor. Last week the incident was re-enacted with variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva...
...Truck" Miller, "Honeyboy" Finnegan, "Newsboy" Brown, "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, Fielding "Hurry-Up Yost, "Cannonball" Crabtree (who will be seen in action when Florida comes to Cambridge a week hence), Paolino Uczudum, the Bounding Basque of the Pyrenees, are some of the more common handles that come to mind. Time Out is just waiting, though, for the day when Harvard will have a star who can be called "Rain Or" Shine...