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Democratic Representative John Mor?gan Evans, 67, Dry, held a very narrow lead for renomination over John Patrick Monaghan, 25, Wet, in the First Congressional District. Renominated in the Second Congressional District was Re- publican Representative Scott Leavitt who will face Tom Stout, Democrat, in the November election...
President of Great Lakes Pipe Line Co. is Daniel James Moran, president of Continental Oil Co. which is J. P. Morgan- dominated. Great Lakes Pipe Line chairman is Edwin B. Reeser, conservative but optimistic president of Barnsdall Corp., stout defender of the five-day week...
...Bermuda. From New London, Conn., started 42 stout-hulled yachts, big and little schooners, ketches, sloops, some with modern sails, some with gaff rigs, Genoa jibs, fishermen's staysails, all bound for Hamilton, Bermuda. All were well provisioned, for sometimes it takes twelve days to get there. No boat has ever been sent out for stragglers; they all get in somehow. There have been accidents, torn sails, broken masts, but no one has ever been lost. Each captain picked his own course, looking for wind. First to reach Hamilton was Dr. George W. Warren's Yankee Girl...
...most versatile writers (in subject-matter) of his century. Son of Professional Cricketer Joseph Wells, he was educated as a biologist, has written on religion, science, history, politics, international relations, socialism, tactics, education, philosophy. Onetime socialist, onetime passionate patriot, he is always promulgating some new social religion. Short, stout, bright-eyed, he has a short-clipped mustache, a high voice, coughs apologetically as he talks. In a vote on "Britain's best brains" tabulated last week by The Spectator, Mr. Wells ranked sixth, preceded (in order) by George Bernard Shaw, Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Birkenhead, Winston Churchill, Dean Inge...
...from her husband last week. ". . . [a Negro named] Redmond grasped her by the ankles and she fell downward, striking against the steel plates . . . with terrific force. . . . Although the shock nearly dragged him [Redmond] overboard, he was pulled back by two of his companions." (Seaman J. W. Walker caught a stout lady, had no quickwitted companions, perished). Bruised and scorched though she was, Mrs. Dayton joined Ship's Nurse Dorothy Mannix in treating the wounded, many of whom died in her arms from lung burns or ghastly body burns. Vice President McNeil said to Mrs. Dayton: "You are the heroine...