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...young Cripps was an avid horseman and hunter, but his main interests were scientific. At 17 he built and flew a glider. At 18 he received the rare honor of working in the laboratory of the great chemist Sir William Ramsay. At 22 he read a science paper before the Royal Society (title: The Critical Constants and Orthobaric Densities of Xenon). Soon after the outbreak of World War I, young Cripps was recalled from driving a truck in France, rose to be assistant superintendent of "the largest explosives factory in the British Empire...
...court he had also begun to interest himself in politics. Cripps joined the Labor Party and, in 1930, came "the luckiest break" of his political life. Ramsay MacDonald's Solicitor General resigned because of illness; Cripps was appointed, in his place and automatically knighted by the King. Conservative Prime Minister-to-be Stanley Baldwin remarked: "Here comes a future Prime Minister...
Among the players recently selected by the nation's sports writers for berths on All-America were seven of Harvard's opponents during the season: Garrard Ramsay of William and Mary, Bob Margarita of Brown, Spencer Moseley of Yale, Jim Kellcher of Army, and Tom Kuzma, Al Wistert, and Julius Franks of Michigan...
...these, five were line men: Ramsay and Franks at guard, Wistert at tackle, Kelleher at end, and Moseley at center. Margarita and Kuzma were picked for backfield positions. The votes of various sports editors for All-American players coincided pretty closely with those of a readers poll conducted by "The Football News". a national sports magazine...
...years between the Liberal Party's birth and World War I, Liberal Governments under nine Prime Ministers ruled Britain for 52 years. With Ramsay MacDonald's Laborites and the Tories monopolizing political luster since 1922, the Liberals developed party schisms and retired ungratefully to a bedrock representation of 20 Members of Parliament. It seemed evident last week that in retirement the Liberal Party had found time to think: about Britain and what they want for it, and what they want for their Party...