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Kirkland House came through with victories in two contests and a loss in one, in battles with champion Yale colleges over the weekend. They won the swimming meet with Trumbull, 31 to 26, took the basketball crown from Pierson 50 to 14, and lost the squash match to Silliman...
...racquetmen, however, are unpredictable since Tom Sears and Fred Rogers, who have led the Deacons to victory so far, will be missing from the top berths in the match with Silliman College...
Tennessee has 38 traditionally Republican counties (out of 95). Of Tennessee's eight big papers* all but one (Silliman Evans' Nashville Tennessean} are out for Wendell Willkie...
...June 1939 ex-Sportsman Emanuel was flying to Nashville to visit his good friend Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. An hour late, his excuse was that he had spent the time searching for Fort Knox, hiding place of U. S. gold. Said Evans: "If the Govern ment has done so well in hiding its gold reserves, wouldn't it be a good idea to have airplane factories here?" Within a year Stinson had finished its new $2,000,000 Nashville plant...
Last year, pudgy little Silliman Evans-a onetime Texas reporter, onetime airtransport executive, onetime 4th Assistant Postmaster General, publisher of the Tennessean since 1937-thought that he would like to meet some of his three-star letter writers. So he gave a banquet for them. At the old Hermitage Hotel last week Evans welcomed them to the second annual Three-Star letter writers' dinner, which he called "a happy evening of disagreement." Said Publisher Evans: "You are the brain trust of the Tennessean...