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...hired for the spring lawn party, outlawed gambling in the chapter house, opposed motions to install a stein rack and to discontinue "Dr. Wilbur's Bible lessons." No niggard, however, Alf Landon gave the fraternity a cuspidor. No "Christer," he downed his beer with other members of Theta Nu Epsilon, oldtime campus drinking society. In his one year of academic study and three years of law, Alf Landon's prime avocation was the workings of fraternity and campus politics, which he mastered so thoroughly that fellow students, nicknamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Kansas Candidate | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...secrets that he whispers most of the time. He likes football and baseball, is an Elk, has a wife who collects Westward Ho glass, three children. He gets along well with reporters, is never seen drinking anything stronger than Coca-Cola, although at college he belonged to Theta Nu Epsilon which was a highly secret order for the reason that it was dedicated to the consumption of keg beer, a practice then and now regarded in Kansas as wildest debauchery. The Governor has so far arranged it that no liquor bill has reached him from the Legislature, so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GOPossibilities | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Shot Put--Won by Zaitz (BC), 48 ft. 3 in. (New record); second, Thomson (MIT), 41 ft. 2 in.; third, Hadley (NU), 40 ft. 9 1-4 in.; fourth, Herman (MIT), 40 ft. 6 1-4 in.; fifth, Mead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRIUMPHS IN G.B.I. SATURDAY WITH TECH SECOND | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Javelin Throw--Won by Johnson (H), 210 ft. 8 1-2 in.; second, Dunlevy (H), 166 ft. 6 1-4 in.; third, Brown (MIT), 164 ft. 4 3-8 in.; fourth, Waltonen (NU), 162 ft. 3 3-8 in.; fifth, Kirk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRIUMPHS IN G.B.I. SATURDAY WITH TECH SECOND | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Discus Throw--Won by Millard (H), 152 ft. 1 3-4 in.; second, Hadley (NU), 146 ft. 7 5-8 in.; third, Thomson, (MIT) 128 ft. 8 in.; fourth, Zaitz (BC), 126 ft. 9 3-8 in.; fifth, Silzby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRIUMPHS IN G.B.I. SATURDAY WITH TECH SECOND | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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