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Southeast-Kentucky, a perennial runner-up in the Southern Conference. was the team to watch at Atlanta last week where the 13 teams in the new Southeastern Conference played their first tournament. Mississippi State, a dark horse in the upper half of the draw, got to the last round but the final was so one-sided-46 to 27 for Kentucky-that Ralph McGill, sport colyumist for the Atlanta Constitution, put all five Kentucky basketballers on his Conference team. Less enthusiastic observers agreed on two- Ellis Johnson, stocky, cat-footed guard, who fed the ball to Kentucky...
...hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, about 15 miles west of Philadelphia, is Newtown Square. On a farm near there dwells a woman who last week felt moved to address the world. Settling her bulky frame at a desk she penned some thousand words, made a dozen typewritten copies, signed each in a bold hand: ALEXANDRE L. TOLSTOY, mailed them to various newspapers and the League of Nations. Then she felt "happier than in a long time...
...book relates in non-scientific terms the adventures of these two expeditions to Southeastern Asia in 1928-29 on behalf of the Field Museum of Chicago. With the Coolidge party starting from China and the Roosevelt group from the Tibetan border, the original plan was to meet on the Mekong River, but the swift rapids in the Mckong and a lack of time prevented this meeting until the end of the expedition. One tragic incident marred the otherwise complete success of the trip. This was the death of R. W. Hendee from malaria when he was on his way from...
...snow, 7 to 6. From Knoxville last week came an announcement that Southern footballers have expected for several years: disintegration of the Southern Conference. Alabama, Auburn. Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, Vanderbilt resigned, formed a new group to be called the Southeastern Conference. Reason: ". . . In our judgment the time has arrived for a more compact organization for the administration of athletics ... on geographical lines." Colleges left in the Southern Conference: Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Virginia. Virginia Military Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Washington...
...troubled newsprint industry.- Another stock stricken last week was Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt fur Handel und Gewerbe, the name of which will play an important part in all financial histories of the present era. Formed by imperial decree in 1855, this Rothschild bank became the most important commercial house in southeastern Europe. When a run began on it last year. Austria tried to aid it, bringing on a crisis which spread to Germany where London banks became involved. The crisis became international and over half of the world was forced off the gold standard. Seneca to Bethlehem. Bethlehem Steel Corp., second...