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...hook snapped off, but one of the fish (a 100-pounder) became so entangled in Angler Roosevelt's wire leader that the President was able to land it. That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored...
...telegraphed crew-minded Franklin Jr. to friends, later confirming that the child (a seven-pounder) had been named for his illustrious grandfather...
...Kentucky electorate for the past eight years. By heart the voters know how he was born to poor parents in Corydon, how his mother left his father in 1902 when Happy was four,* how he sold newspapers and did odd jobs while getting through high school. A 170-pounder, 5 ft. 10½ in., compact and fast on his feet, enormously cheerful and energetic, he arrived at Lexington to enter Transylvania College with "a red sweater, a $5 bill and a smile." He got a job in a laundry, played football, basketball and baseball (captain), charmed the campus...
Clashing for the 145 pound championship among the Houses, David D. Malcolm of Kirkland House will endeavor to keep his house in the lead against John Keppel of the Elephants. 155 pounder Arthur Gray '40 of the Pioneers will vie with Peter E. Illman '40 from Adams, who was captain of last year's Freshman wrestling team...
...second row of the scrum, known as the "muscle-men of rugby," Butch Fisher, the "light from Law School," is filling one of the berths at lock, a position he held on the Varsity team two years ago. Fisher, a 200-pounder, gives plenty of push, and it would take a good man to get through or around him. Cabot Briggs, who has played at Oxford, is the other lock at present, with Bill Coleman, a center on the Varsity squad last fall, and 190-pound Dick Nason offering plenty of competition...