Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two years at Yale's School of Fine Arts, Harry McGuire was called home to Denver, made editor of Outdoor Life, potent sporting magazine which his father had founded in 1898. Editor McGuire took seriously his job of running a publication, increased circulation to 139,603, made $50,000 in good years. In line of duty he formed a Bear Protection Society, went deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with the president of the University of Minnesota and, while intoxicated in Mexico, shot the sixth largest antelope ever bagged...
...elder McGuire sold Outdoor Life, retired to California. Harry McGuire went to Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out a private polo field, break his nose in an automobile smash-up and become familiar with many of the nation's literary and social lights, who in turn came to regard kinetic, fun-loving Harry McGuire as something of a character himself...
With three weeks and a day of outdoor rowing behind them the Varsity crew has settled down into the long, early-season grind. The first race is against Princeton and M.I.T. on May 2. Whiteside had not made any changes in the stern two oars nor in the bow pair but the waist four seems to be only moderately satisfactory if the minor but repeated changes he has made here are indicative of relatively greater weakness...
Spring sunlight and outdoor sports combine to offer the CRIMSON candidate unlimited photographic possibilities for this next competition. Baseball pictures from the press box and finish line track shots will all be taken by the candidates who show that they can get the pictures...
...competition will not only give practice to the candidates in outdoor action and still photography, but as there is a simple portrait studio in the CRIMSON Building, they will have an opportunity to get portrait experience and to study pictorial lighting at first hand...