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That was the main event on the card but what the crowd had really come to see was not the title match but an astounding 302 lb. freak named Frank ("Man Mountain") Dean whom Promoter Curley, always on the lookout for monstrosities, had found last year in Norcross, Ga. Before that, Man Mountain Dean, reared in Manhattan, had been an unsuccessful stevedore, a sparring partner whom Jess Willard used frequently to knock out. When he became a wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy...
John Wells Norcross 2M, of Boston; Kenneth Barrie Olson 4M, of Seattle, Washington; Charles Rupp, Jr. 4M, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Carlton Remsberg Souders 4M, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Douglas Aykroyd Sunderland 2M, of Glenside, Pennsylvania; William Graham Thompson 4M, of Andover; William Louis Wallbank 2M, of New Britain, Connecticut; Henry Stanley Warren 2M, of Melrose Highlands; Meyer Richard Whitehill 3M, of Norfolk, Virginia; Robert Wallace Wilkins 4M, of Greensboro, North Carolina; Robert Ory Wilson 4M, of Pleasant Valley, Connecticut; Hays Richman Yandell 4M, of San Antonio, Texas...
Publisher Martin contemplates fusing his old magazine with his new, placing the amalgam under the direction of World Traveler's Editor Charles P. Norcross, now junketing in the Orient. Because World Traveler has about one-fourth of its stablemate's distribution, and because when two magazines combine one inevitably swallows the other, publishers guessed that the ever-mutating Mentor would be the one to endure...
...Peace Worth Preserving" by Woodrow Wilson, W. H. Melish '31; "Hymn Before Sunrise" by Coleridge, Carleton Green '30: Speech before the Massachusetts Senate by Calvin Coolidge, F. F. Wilder '32: "The Washington Conference", anonymous, J. W. Norcross '32; "Woolsey's Farewell" by Shakespeare, H. C. Friend '31: "The New South" by H. W. Grady, G. E. Lodgen '32: "The Passing of Arthur" by Tennyson, J. L. Ware '30: "The Bishop Orders his Tomb" by Browning, M. F. Loewenstein '32: "Bryan" by Vachel Lindsay, D. D. Lloyd '31: Selection from "John Brown's Body" by Benet, Abbot Peterson...
...will enter the finals are: Carlton Green '30. D. D. Lloyd '31, M. F. Loewenstein '32. H. C. Friend '31, Abbot Peterson Jr. '30, Fessenden Wilder '32, J. L. Ware '30. W. H. Melish '31, G. E. Lodgen '32, and J. W. Norcross...