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...Painted by California-born Artist Albert Sheldon Pennoyer. In the central foreground is the slender figure of young Henry Ford in blue overalls and shirt sleeves. Single-handed he is pushing something that looks like a buggy without shafts. A number on the red shed in the central background fixes the scene at No. 56 Bagley Street, now the site of 14-story Michigan Theatre building, then on the fringe of Detroit's residential district, two blocks west of Grand Circus Park. A bronze tablet at the theatre's entrance preserves the record of what happened there. The Fords then...
...expenses and salaries is only $22,564.40, the interest on the Henry K. Oliver bequest. The University contributes nothing, save to pay a possible deficit. Under the present large staff it is quite impossible to have any full time man, with all the expenses to be met by this slender...
...hard-fought, closely contested fraternity indoor baseball game last night Sigma Alpha Epsilon downed Kappa Sigma by the slender margin of 14 to 13. The game between the champions of the Alpha and Beta leagues see-sawed back and forth until the teams went into a tie in the seventh; the deadlock lasted until the last of the ninth...
Just after 6:30 a. m. the Japanese sentries saw a motor car flying the U. S. flag and bearing the emblem of U. S. Consul General Myrl S. Myers drive up to the station. Out stepped a slender, well-dressed U. S. citizen. He showed a U. S. diplomatic passport proclaiming him to be Culver Bryant Chamberlain, newly appointed U. S. Consul at Harbin. Because he speaks no Japanese, speaks perfect Chinese, knows that most Japanese know a little Chinese, Consul Chamberlain addressed the Japanese sentry in Chinese, promptly received a blow in the face...
...Crimson's revamped team played inspired basketball to build up a lead of 15 to 10 in the first half and to cling of its slender lead throughout the greater part of the final period. However, with four minutes left to play. Columbia knotted the count at 21-21 and scored the winning points to maintain its undefeated record...