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...Evanston, Ill., when the last of five extortion letters directed Mrs. James A. Patten, 75, relict of Chicago's wheat tycoon, to walk at night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying a dummy packet and a revolver. Detectives caught one Axel Peterson, 52, onetime well-to-do landscape gardener employed by Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes and Northwestern University...
High scorer in the Big Ten this year is Joe Reiff, Northwestern forward, who helps pay his way through college by sweeping out the lobby of Patten Gymnasium at 40? an hour. In last week's closing game against Minnesota that later gave Northwestern its tie with Ohio State in the Conference, Reiff's 20 points brought his record for the season to 167-13 more than the Conference record of 154 made by Purdue's Johnny Wooden a year ago. Ohio State's 6-ft.-4-in. Centre Hosket is a less spectacular player...
HARVARD BOSTON Y.M.C.A. Abdalah 126-pound patten McGranahan 135-pound Roes Chard 145-pound Countway Joseph 145-pound Piperpoules Kimball 156-pound Deanon Potter 165-pound MacTierman Knowles 175-pound Thomas Arenson Unlimited Hubbard...
...longer a part of the New Haven tradition of bulldogs and turtle-necked sweaters, when the original Mortaritya and their golden lucks were a fragrant reality and when fence rush and freshman fraternities both flourished as glorious campus institutions. Frank is being brought up to date by Gilbert Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick Court, exercise under the eagle eye of Bob Kiphuth in the new Whitney Memorial Gymnasium and snatch a toasted bun for breakfast at the new Ac Longley's, where...
...Tobin taught him how to box when he was 14. In high school Eddie Eagan was interested in history. He observed that most U. S. heroes started out as lawyers, determined to do likewise. Admiring the deeds of Frank Merriwell, hero of boys' books by Author Gilbert Patten, he decided to emulate Hero Merriwell also. He got a scholarship at Denver University. While he was there, Jack Dempsey came to town. They boxed an exhibition match. Eagan gave Demp sey a hard punch on the jaw. "He [Dempsey] hummed the tune 'Everybody Two-Step,' keeping time with...