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...children, discoursed on his progeny: "I can't recall them offhand, but all 40 are on record at the court house. Now some of them died before we could think up names for them, so they were never named. . . . There was Molly, Florence, Mandy, John Will, Joe, Norm, E. T., Ola, Claudie and Cloodie. . . . I can't think of another one in the first batch." With John Joshua Beasley were his second wife and their youngest child, aged 18 months...
...that some colleges make half a million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia, divert promising prep-school material to their particular plants, and ask only the dividends of victory over which they may gloat...
...Boston, Mrs. James F. Norris, wife of a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entered her home, found the living room topsy-turvy, her husband's bedroom locked. She called police who broke open the bedroom door. On Prof. Norm's bed lay John Broderick, burglar, with an open volume of Shakespeare and two empty quart bottles of 1911 Green River whisky...
...Fort Worth stayed up 172½ hrs. (TIME, June 3). To surpass these records four planes were flying last week. At Cleveland R. L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb took up the Stinson-Detroiter Miss Cleveland. As the new week began they were still flying. Also flying were Leo Norm's and Maurice Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field, L. I., Viola Gentry, flying cashier, and Jack Ashcraft, went up in the Cabinair biplane...
...there is a norm in U. S. painting, it may best be studied at exhibitions of Manhattan's National Academy and Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy. These perennial shows are more famed for politeness than for pungency, for plethora than for power. There are always innumerable nice landscapes, portraits, still-lifes. Very few of them are incandescent with genius. Interest is in trends and tendencies rather than transcendent individuals. The last National Academy show was ponderously conventional (TIME, Dec. 17). At the 124th annual Pennsylvania Academy exhibition, opened last week, the advanced group was more numerous than in Manhattan...