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...begins every Friday night over Mutual affiliate station WRAL the prisoners' broadcast from North Carolina's brown, brick Central State Prison just a few blocks from the business centre of Raleigh. Started eight months ago by six-foot, 240-pound Ren Hoek as part of the recreational activities of which he was director, the show began with a kazoo player, a piano pounder, a drummer. Inmates took part on the program only as a reward for good behavior the preceding week, soon made it the "shortest half hour of the week" for their 900 fellow prisoners...
Ringmaster of this gigantic art circus was a talkative, six-foot, grey-thatched former philosophy professor named Arthur Upham Pope who gave up philosophy 15 years ago because he liked Persian rugs better, soon found that he could make five times his professor's salary as an expert rug appraiser...
...there on the dot of 8 and actually got inside the door, but that was all; he heard about "George Behr-nard Shaw" from the midst of the s. r. o. crowd, and Providence had placed a six-foot Radcliffe girl in front of him as an added feature...
Like many another university graduate of 1930, husky, handsome, six-foot Robert Pauli Scherer, with a chemical engineering degree from the University of Michigan did not find it easy to get a job. He could not, for example, take the first job offered because 1) $125 a month was too little, 2) he could not possibly get up in time to get to the plant at 7:30 a.m. Finally he got a job as a chemical engineer, but it blew up inside of three months. So Scherer took to his father's basement and began to experiment just...
Gustave Broberg, six-foot, one-inch Dartmouth forward from Torrington, Coun, dominates the 1940 Eastern Intercollegiate League all-star basketball team just as he outshone all rivals during the league season...