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...Washington. If given a direct choice at the fall election between good government and bad government, there can be no doubt as to their decision." As the sole Presidential entrant in Pennsylvania's Republican primaries last week, Senator William Edgar Borah received the compliment of a pencil scratch from more than 300,000 voters. Only 20 of the State's 75 convention delegates had pledged themselves in advance to support the popular choice, were last week reported eager to weasel out of their promise...
...Jesse Stuart sat down and wrote a big stack of "sonnets ' (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow -TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), a few critics sat up, called him a modern Bobbie Burns. Others just laughed at his unconscious, bull-tongued humor. Last week Poet Stuart made the scoffers scratch their heads over a book of stones that were partly funny, partly serious, in the main tantalizingly good. These tales of Kentucky farmers were written in racy Kentucky dialect, with a wild-eyed, straightforward outrageousness that reminded readers more than once of Erskine Caldwell, at times of the ingenuous slyness...
...meter high hurdles. All scratch. First Heat--Won by M. G. Green '36; second, R. P. Randall '39. Time--15 4-5 sees. Second Heat--Won by W. H. Schmidt '37; second, D. C. Crawford '36. Time--16 1/2 sees...
...meter dash. First heat--Won by J. C. Dounelly '39, (6yds.); second, Oscar Sutermeister 3G. (4 yds). Time--23 3/4 sees. Second heat--Won by W. O'Connor '37, (scratch); second, F. Goodhue '37, (9 yds.). Time--23 2-5 sees. Third heat--Won by R. P. Randall '39, (9 yds.); second, W. Grush '38, (3 yds.). Time--23 3/3 sees...
...First heat--Won by F. Goodhue '37, (6 yds.); second, R. P. Randall '39, (6 yds.). Time--11 3/3 sees. Second heat--Won by R. B. Fawcett '38, (6 yds.); second, G. Hay '38, (4 yds.). Time--11 2-5 sees. Third heat--Won by W. H. Schmidt '37, (scratch); second, J. C. Dounelly '39, (4 yds.). Time--11 2-5 sees. Fourth heat--Won by R. S. Brookings 1L., (4 yds.); second, T. H. Calhoun '39, (5 yds.). Time--12 sees. Fifth heat--Won by D. P. Coffin '38, (5 yds.), second, F. Garrison '37, (6 yds.). Time...