Word: sherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile relay in which Harvard will be at its strongest. Alec Northrop, strong miler, Bill O'Connor, a 600-yarder who has traveled the distance in 1:16, Sherman Brayton, a sophomore, and Cleveland Floyd all will be extended by the Cornell team which promises to break the eight minute mark and which is sending its strongest team in years, but they don't appear to have enough to win the two-mile relay...
Convention. While New York's bagatelle bigwigs were on pins & needles last week, thousands of pin-game manufacturers, distributors and operators from all corners of the world were busy gathering for their annual convention at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. On display were 50 new varieties of bagatelle boards including one to resemble a map of Ethiopia with Haile Selassie's palace az high-score hole. To his confreres, Clinton S. Darling, secretary of the National Association of Coin Operated Machine Manufacturers, expressed his confidence in a pastime which has already lasted twice as long as midget golf...
...Philo Sherman Bennett Prize of $50 for the best essay discussing the principles of free government was assigned to Russell G. Olsen, '35, of Chicago, III., for an essay on "Popular Sovereignty and the Political Theories of Robert Parsons...
This dramatic match last week ended 14 successive days of caroms, draw shots and four-cushion banks at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. Defending Champion Johnny Layton, a 3-to-1 favorite to repeat, fell behind at the start. When he met Hoppe, a fly zoomed on his cue ball, rested comfortably while Layton fidgeted. When the fly took flight, Layton fumbled, let Hoppe beat him for the first time in tournament competition. 50-to-49. Finally Cochran, toppled only by Arthur Thurnblad, 1931's winner, faced Hoppe, his onetime U. S. touring partner, previously beaten by Allen Hall...
...Barretts of Wimpole Street), daughter of President Frank Gillmore of the Actors' Equity Association; and Robert F. Ross, 35, director (On Stage, The Distant Shore) ; in Manhattan. Acquitted. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives: of a charge of having violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by withholding their films from three St. Louis cinemansions (TIME, Oct. 14); by a Federal court jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing system. Died. Harold Ellicott Scarborough, 38, until lately European editorial...