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Coaches Dick Harlow and Ducky Pond will both be featured speakers on the broadcast. Kieran will conduct a round table consisting of such sports authorities as John Lardner, George Carens, Vic Jones, Bill Cunningham, and others. Announcer Bill Stern will also be on hand. Lemuel A. Watkins '21 will address the rally on behalf of the hosts...
Last December a lungfish from a pond in British East Africa was placed in a large tin can filled with wet mud. This creature, something like a catfish, something like a small eel, struggled through the mud to the top of the can occasionally to breathe air; but as the mud dried and hardened, the lungfish was held fast at the bottom. Six months later, the can reached its destination, a biological supply house in Chicago. The can was opened, the cylindrical mold of dried mud delicately picked away, the lungfish removed. It was alive. The fish, gaunt from...
...refrigerator had doubled its sales. Then, in 1935, paunchy Robert Carl Suhr, president of 24-State, $44,000,000 City Ice & Fuel Co., was less scared than most icemen. He had jumped the rest of the industry five years, had brought his company out of the drippy-wagon, pickerel-pond stage, had $25,710,324 sales and $2,972,997 net income. By the end of 1935, other icemen put Suhr at the head of newly organized National Ice Advertising, Inc., to see what could be done to rehabilitate the industry. Changes followed...
...Most interesting of the historical designs is Avery Johnson's spirited winter scene for Bordentown, N. J., which shows Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, who settled on the Delaware River after his brother Napoleon's downfall, watching his footman distribute largess to skaters on his private pond...
...Ducky Pond: "What a man that Tom Harmon of Michigan is! Boys, you can all thank your lucky stars that he couldn't get into Dartmouth. It wasn't a question of our folding up or wilting--Michigan really has a ball club. Harmon! He's tall, he's tan, he's terrific...