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...given a good look at a fair cross-section of its college co-eds last week. For the first time since 1933, a beauty contest was held among the Big Ten universities of the Midwest. Purdue, Michigan and Indiana refused to let their girls participate, but scouts from Northwestern helped pick, and the promoters...
...Northwestern's Charity Ball in Chicago judged, seven "queens" from seven big campuses (see cut). They gave the prize to the most patrician-looking girl of the lot-dark-haired, demure Joyce Kerr, 21, daughter of a drygoods merchant in Elmore, Minn. Queen Joyce is a junior at the University of Minnesota...
John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy since 1933, has been associated, as economics professor, with Princeton and Northwestern. After coming to Harvard, Williams was economic adviser for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and served as United States delegate to the World Monetary and Economic Conference in 1932. An editor of the Review of Economic Statistics, Professor Williams talks on the "Control of Currency and Credit...
...river ice breakers, and ice yachting waned in the East except at such centres as New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, Lakes Hopatcong and Greenwood, the Mystic Lakes in Massachusetts, Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York. In Scandinavian Minnesota,* in Wisconsin and Michigan, ice yachting has flourished. The Northwestern Ice Yachting Association's classifications of ice boats are used nationally and their annual regatta, held last 'week on Lake Pewaukee, just west of Milwaukee, is the nearest thing to national ice boat championships...
Watching this year's races, unable to participate because of a recent operation, was Starke Meyer onetime Commodore of the Northwestern Ice Yachting Association, at 45 the uncrowned king of a royal family of ice yacht experimenters. Almost killed when his radical Paula III overturned in 1933, unshipping her mast and smashing her hull down on him, Starke Meyer returned to racing, continued his experimental Paula series through 1935. His four brothers, Arnold, Chris, Henry (eight-time winner of the N. W. I. Y. A. 350-ft. class with his Dorla) and William have aided him. Chiefly to them...