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...done nothing else for Nephew Nelson in the preceding three weeks, Uncle Winthrop had certainly shown him the country. After two days in Chicago the Amundsen rolled north to Milwaukee, where the party was taken in hand by a good & faithful Chase customer, big Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. When Mr. Aldrich wanted to see the city's residential section, Dr. Charles Edgar Albright, Northwestern's star salesman, motored him through the suburbs, took him to his own house for a cocktail party where 75 Milwaukee bigwigs were waiting to meet the No. 1 U. S. banker. Mr. Aldrich...
...President in 1932, beetle-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott whipped Los Angeles on toward a precise $3,094,805. Active patron of Philadelphia's campaign for $3,752,000 was onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper. Milwaukee wanted $1,113,248 and big, hearty President Michael Joseph Cleary of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. was out to see that it got it. Johns Hopkins' President Joseph Sweetman Ames kept after citizens of Baltimore for the last $150,000 of a set $1,150,000. No Community Chest has New York City but Banker James Gillespie Blaine and his Citizens Family...
Wisconsin alumni were given a rare Homecoming. In the stands as guest of honor was Patrick John O'Dea, Wisconsin captain in 1898 and 1899, often considered the greatest kicker the game ever developed. Most prodigious feat: in the 1898 game against Northwestern, played in a raging blizzard, he sent a drop-kick between goalposts 62 yd. away. Originally an Australian rugby player, O'Dea disappeared in 1919, was supposed to have joined Australian troops, been killed in action in France. Two months ago in California he revealed his identity to newshawks, explained his assumption of another name...
...Northwestern's first appearance, against Marquette, was featured by forward passes by a tall senior named George Potter which enabled his team...
...Redskins' scintillants, Cliff Battles, ace ballcarrier of the league and star of the Brooklyn game; Erny Pinckert, former So. California captain and halfback; Pug Rentner of Northwestern; Ted Wright of Texas Teachers, who led the nation in scoring two years ago; Turk Edwards, All-Professional tackle; Hank McPhail, 230-pound fullback from Army, and Big Ben Boswell, 245-pound tackle from Texas Christian, will make their first appearance of the year on the Fenway sward...