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...from Germany by steamer through the Panama Canal, Professor Albert Einstein reached Pasadena last week. He declined to cross the U. S. by rail for fear of raucous rabble, pesky newshawks. Frau Einstein was with him to worry over his comforts. He will study at prim, red-roofed California Institute of Technology and the Mount Wilson Observatory for the next two months. Professor Willem de Sitter, another cosmologist, will study with him. Meanwhile in Washington met the American Astronomical Society for its annual interpretation of the heavens. Solar Burst Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory offered a hypothesis...
...interne at the New Haven Hospital last year, he was detailed to ride the ambulance on the morning of the Yale-Dartmouth game. As soon as he was elected, Coach Stevens announced that he would appoint a committee to investigate the causes of football injuries, make salutary recommendations. At Pasadena the football season formally closed last week when Tulane, undefeated in the South this year, played Southern California, which beat Notre Dame and all other opponents except St. Mary's. As usual the occasion was a field day for Hollywood. Funnyman Buster Keaton chartered a bus for his party...
Three years ago in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena occurred the most famous blunder of modern football. Roy Riegels, California centre, picked up a Georgia Tech fumble, ran it 73 yd. the wrong way. Two yards from his own goal-line a teammate stopped him. but two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked him across the line. The referee gave the ball to California two inches in front of the goalline. On the next play, Georgia Tech scored a safety, which won the game and the "national championship" for that year, 8 to 7. Last week, on a cool windy clay...
...winter golf circuit starts at San Francisco, moves down the coast to Pasadena and Agua Caliente for the richest ($15,000) tournament in the world. Then it jumps to Florida for Open tournaments at Belleair. Fort Lauderdale, Miami, St. Augustine and usually the La Gorce Open at Miami Beach, for which the $15,000 prize money has not been posted this year. It ends in March with the North & South Open at Pinehurst. Obscure young Eastern professionals often club together to buy an old car for the tour of Florida's tournaments, hoping that luck and the urgent need...
...Pasadena, Calif...