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Pole vault--Won by Harwood (E); second, Rogerson (H); third, Slinger-land (H). Height...
Standouts for the Crimson were fullbacks Bob Harbison and Slinger and centerhalf Jack Clarke and the Berman, Drake, Calhoun trio on the attack. Chief faults, however, were the failure of the halves to support the Crimson offense and an unexplainable lack of scoring punch...
Robust son of a Bloomington, Ill. country doctor, Hubbard quit school at 15, became door-to-door salesman for his cousin (J. Weller & Co., Practical Soaps). Few years later, a dandy in sideburns and tight pants, he had risen to No. 1 U. S. "soap-slinger," become partner of the soap firm of John D. Larkin in Buffalo, N. Y. His supersalesmanship made a household word of Larkin's Creme Oatmeal Soap. He invented the Club Plan, pioneered the premium method of selling (celluloid collar buttons, buttonhooks, "solid silver" spoons, the Chautauqua Lamp...
...backward by Hollywood at its age of innocence, 20th Century-Fox studios appropriated $2,000,000, took more than three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics...
Harvard's baseball fortunes geared yesterday afternoon as the League leading Dartmouth Indians were held to a split in a double hender with the lowly Princeton Tigers. The Big Green, behind Jimmy Heston, won the first one 15 to 2, but Indian slinger Johnny Lendo was charged with a 6 to 4 defeat in the nightcap...