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...doctor once told City Traffic Engineer Ralph Dorsey of Los Angeles that in night driving a motorist's eyes become so sensitized to the white stripe painted down the middle of many highways that he follows it automatically, is thus likely to be drawn into intersectional crashes. The doctor suggested that there should be a signal to the eye which would warn the brain of an intersection ahead. Last week, Engineer Dorsey's idea of a good signal was amazing drivers at some dozen dangerous crossings in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley section...
Kirkland came right back with a 30-yard pass from George T. Cushman '37 to Richard H. Wills, Jr. '38, and a 15-yard penalty against Winthrop put the ball on the five-yard stripe. Cushman tallied on the third line buck, but the kick was blocked...
...early third quarter Deacon drive was halted on the ten-yard stripe, but Kirkland started a last offensive with another Cushman-to-Wills pass, good for 20 yards. Three plays later Alan P. O'Kelly '38 ran 25 yards to clinch the game for the new title-holders. The kick failed...
Intercepting a pass on his own ten-yard line, Elliot B. Knowlton '38 ran 90 yards to tally the losers' first score, but Lowell failed to convert. In the third period Knowlton ran back a punt to the Deacons' 20-yard stripe, Mark H. Cornell '37 shot a pass to A. Judson Wells, Jr. '38, Knowlton gained seven yards off tackle, and Clarence A. Beehower, Jr. '37 scored from the three-yard line...
Ever since Pilsudski's death last year, the Polish Government has tried to convince the Polish people that Rydz-Smigly is a man of the same stern, lusty stripe. Actually Rydz-Smigly is a polite, modest gentleman with a bald head, whose thin lips are his only evidence of severity. Before he joined the revolutionary Pilsudski Legion in 1914, he was an art student, specializing in landscapes...