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Clinching its first undisputed Big Ten title in 23 years, Minnesota's juggernaut took no chances with Wisconsin. While Indiana was spoiling Purdue's chance to tie, 17-to-6, at Lafayette, Lund, Levoir, Smith and Roark piled up five touchdowns...
...BAND PLAY DIXIE-Roark Bradford-Harper...
...Roark Bradford has gone the late Joel Chandler Harris one better. Harris' classic Uncle Remus showed the Negro as storyteller, at one remove from his own concerns; in Bradford's tales Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit appear in their own black skins, without disguise. Negrophiles and educated Negroes may object that Author Bradford simplifies too much, sentimentalizes too often, but plain readers like his stories. Marc Connelley's The Green Pastures, founded on Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, was the Broadway hit of 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize that...
...producing nothing comparable in the way of excitement was the one period of magnificent polo which enabled the young team of Michael Phipps, James Mills, Winston Guest, and William Post to open the series against the heavier, more experienced Westerners, Eric Pedley, Elmer Boeseke, Cecil Smith and Aidan Roark, with a brilliant unexpected victory...
...Argentines in Paris. Eric Pedley, whose j handicap was reduced from 9 to 8 two years ago, is still considered the best No. 1 in the world. He is the same age as Boeseke (38), belongs to the same club (Southern California's fashionable Midwick). Aidan Roark, rated at 8 goals, is the younger brother of Capt. 'Tat" Roark, famed British Internationalist. Born in Ireland's County Carlow, he is now a U. S. citizen, a cinema executive (Twentieth Century) in Hollywood. Forced off the team at the last moment by an attack of rheumatism...