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Winner of the grand prize of $50 was B. E. Robinson, of Birmingham Ala., for an essay on "Chauning's Causes for the Fall of the Confederacy". Three others were presented with checks for $25 by Mr. Malone: Arthur Devaney, of Saginaw, Mich.. for an essay on "Emerson: the Summum Bonum and the Style": J. C. Rulley, of Washington, D.C., who wrote on "Proletarian Literature in the United States": and J. D. Grandine, of Crandon, Wis., whose essay was on "The Failure of Cotton Diplomacy during the Civil War." Two other yearlings were given Honorable Mention in the contest...
...Sticks & Stones." Oakland County's limestone courthouse is a gingerbready, dishwater-grey building, set at the principal business intersection, Saginaw and Huron streets. Before it local Republicans had nailed together an uncovered yellow pineboard platform. There Willkie talked, his booming baritone sunk by hoarseness to a deep bass: earnest, forthright, without fireworks...
...Saginaw, Mich...
...Saginaw, Mich., Marcelino Mareno, explaining how he had shot off the tip of a finger 26 years before, aimed an "unloaded" gun at it, shot off what was left...
...Saginaw, Mich. dressmaker, Bill Watson-who is earning his way through college by waiting on table and acting as secretary to Prize Fighter Joe Louis-is considered the best all-round track man in the U. S. Besides winning the Big Ten championship in the shot put, broad jump and discus three years in a row, he has cleared the high jump at 6 ft. 5 ¾ in., has run 100 yd. in 10.1 sec., 440 yd. in 55 sec. If he can brush up on the pole vault, javelin, high hurdles and the 1,500-meter...