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...Norwood Cox, the new coach engaged by the ski team, has had much experience in both ski competitions and coaching and was formerly jumping and cross country champion of Grenoble, Switzerland. He has coached for six years in America and has entered indoor exhibitions at the Boston Garden and at Madison Square Garden in New York...
Bright, who raced extensively both here and abroad will talk on skiing in general. Dave Emerson '39, captain of the ski team, and Norwood Cox, the new coach, will outline the year's program...
...Roosevelt finally gave ear to the agonized howls of 7½ million sportsmen. He appointed a Committee on Wildlife Restoration. The Committee promptly recommended that $25,000,000 be earmarked for the restoration of lands suitable for wild life preserves. It was not forthcoming, but famed Cartoonist-Conservationist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling passed the hat around to various Government agencies before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch up $8,500,000. From o.ther sources a total of $21,000,000 was finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western...
Weary of his job in the pressroom of the Plimpton Press, Alfred A. Knopf Jr, 19-year-old son of the Manhattan publisher, left Norwood, Mass, with $15 and an ambition to "make his way" in the West. Week later, after his father had aroused the entire U. S., he turned up, penniless and hungry, in a Salt Lake City police station, was promptly packed off home via air. His conclusions: "Truck drivers are the friendliest people of all; they bought me a couple of meals and let me ride practically all the way. And one of them gave...
...hired a taxi for an inter-city journey. Sober folk also occasionally take long cab trips. Spinster Catherine Bruen of Brewster, N. Y. has made two round-trip taxi rides to Bellingham, Wash. Homeward-bound from Mexico City last week were 76-year-old Emily Curtis Fisher of Norwood and three other Massachusetts ladies who chartered a sedan and driver from Jack's Taxi Service for the journey. Extraordinary as these treks may seem, they were topped by a trip which last week ended in Manhattan and will go down in taxi history as a classic for both driver...