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Into the decrepit frame the late Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler breathed new life. A onetime superintendent of schools, he made teacher training the college's chief aim. Ten new buildings sprang up on the campus. Established were branches at Richmond, Newport, Norfolk. President Chandler revived the School of Law, made it part of a new Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship. Dying last June, he left a lively college of 100 faculty members, 1,200 students...
...minutes later, after a 40-yd. march to Pitt's 18-yd. line, Minnesota sprang the "Sunday play"-a double lateral pass followed by a forward. Lund to Tenner-that it had saved for just such a crisis. The touchdown won the game...
Last week William Fox, that bald and beady-eyed onetime magnifico of cinema, sprang at his adversaries in eleven directions at once. Alleging ''great and irreparable loss, damage and injury," he entered suit in Manhattan for injunction and accounting of profits against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., M-G-M Distributing Corp., Columbia Pictures Corp., Consolidated Film Industries Inc., First Division Pictures Inc., Universal Pictures Corp., Monogram Picture Corp., Reliance Picture Corp., Talking Picture Epics Inc., Twentieth Century Pictures Inc., and Ameranglo Corp...
...share of attention from Theosophists, spiritualists, vegetarians. Populists, Single Taxers, Rosicrucians, crackpots, faddists and cultists of every sort. But it would not have survived a season had it not also made a strong appeal to California's desperate 425,000 unemployed and their 800,000 dependents. EPIC clubs sprang up overnight until by last week they numbered 1,000. And Upton Sinclair found himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. "I found I was not getting anywhere as a Socialist," explained he, "and so I decided to try to make progress with...
...gulch gold was found on the shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last...