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Like many another American, Jimmy Stewart was always restless. He quit Schenectady's Union College after a year, dabbled-and fumbled-in Florida real estate. At last he settled down to a mildly lucrative ice business in Oneonta, N.Y. When it looked unlikely that he would be drafted (he is 37, has a wife and two sons), Jimmy Stewart enlisted as a driver for the British American Ambulance Corps in Libya...
...Oneonta, N. Y., police arrested Clyde Proctor, 27, who confessed to having shaken a 15-month-old boy to death "because...
Brown University's pacifism excited an investigation by the Rhode Island Legislature. Voting in the poll was forbidden at the University of Nebraska, Hartwick College (Oneonta, N. Y.) and the College of the City of New York. Because the last is a taxpayers' institution, any "Red" result would have been "extremely impolitic." C. C. N. Y. has enough troubles anyway. Last week a C. C. N. Y. student named Jacob Itzkowitz appeared before a Brooklyn justice named Charles E. Russell. He wished to reassume the name Bakur which his grandfather had given up to avoid military service...
...Southern Pacific Railroad, of which he was President when he died, and who passed on most of his shares to his nephew. Henry Edwards Huntington, the nephew, was not, in the conventional idiom, self-made; he took Collis Huntington's money and used it to advantage. Born in Oneonta, N. Y., in 1850, he dealt in hardware, switched to railroading, grew. He bought land, built resorts in southern California, and ran railroads out to them (the Pacific Interurban, the Los Angeles Street Railways). He made about a hundred million dollars. He said he would retire at 60. That...
...rule of Syracuse University which prevents students unable to swim from graduating has at last achieved dramatic importance. Miss Bernice Goldstein, of Oneonta, N. Y., a member of the scholastic fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa, will be unable to graduate because she cannot learn to swim. Whether the rule is due to love of Greek culture or fear of an-other flood is not known...