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...route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto, Calif. As high-school students during the War they had "ham" (amateur) radio stations in their houses, would shout excitedly across the street to verify what signals they could pick up. Both boys entered Stanford University where Franklin's father, Professor Edward Curtis Franklin, is famed as an organic...
...relatives. Like Woodrow Wilson, President Hoover objects to such family publicity. He considers the private side of his life and of those about him something in which the public can have no legitimate interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren-to make a formal appearance before the talking newsreel cameras on the White House lawn...
...difficult to hold his peace, upon reading, in column entitled "Football," TIME of Nov. 3, the remark that in being defeated by Southern California 41-12 last week, Stanford University suffered "the worst beating any college has ever given Stanford." For your information: on Nov. 19, 1921, at Palo Alto, our Golden Bears-which the Press of that time had dubbed the "Wonder Team"-helped Stanford dedicate its brand-new stadium, barely completed on time for the game, to the tune of a 42-7 victory for University of California. Some 60,000 persons witnessed the affair. That was only...
West: Stanford v. Dartmouth, at Palo Alto; University of California (L. A.) v. Idaho, at Los Angeles...
West: California v. Nevada, at Berkeley; Colorado v. Utah, at Boulder; Nebraska v. Missouri, at Lincoln; Oregon State v. Oregon, at Corvallis; Southern California v. Hawaii, at Los Angeles; Stanford v. California Tech at Palo Alto; Utah Aggies v. Colorado Aggies, at Logan; Washington v. Washington State, at Seattle...