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...last year's winner, with seasoned Crawford Burton up, took a nasty fall at the second jump, but Burton had remounted and was coming on behind. Sea Soldier was running easily in second place. Well back, though still in it, were the black & white silks of Bostonian Sumner Pingree's Soissons, ridden by Jack Skinner...
...credited with six planes, is in the law firm of Knotts & Knotts of Springfield, Ill., was secretary of last year's National Air Legislation Congress. Ace Arthur Ray Brooks has had his picture in many a rotogravure supplement as pilot of Bell Telephone's "flying laboratory." Ace Sumner Sewall, longtime traffic manager of Colonial Airways, is now head of Air Ads Inc. (TIME, March...
...Malcolm Bancroft Jones '24, tutor in the Department of Modern Languages, and George Charles Sumner Benson, tutor in the Department of Government. Under the new ruling, which was made by the master and tutors, not only the dining hall, but also the House library, and, if the House committee so votes, the squash courts as well, will be open to all former residents of Lowell House. The rule is designed primarily to effect those former members of the House who later enroll in Graduate Schools, but will also hold for former Lowell House men who have graduated from college...
...Sumner R. Kilmarx, an interior decorator, was one of a jury which had been sitting for three weeks hearing dull testimony in a Manhattan corporation case. One morning he came to court carrying typewritten sheets, which he distributed to his confreres, to all the lawyers, and the judge. On the sheets was an original composition-a poem by Sumner R. Kilmarx entitled ''The Jurors' Lament." Excerpt: The Justice nods, the jurors yawn, The hours tick away. But still the lawyers argue, And the case drags on its way. We came here in the prime of life...
...charter. One of the provisions in New York's penal laws allows the Society to collect 50% of the fines imposed in "vice" cases discovered by it. The Graphic, agitating for abolition of the Society, stated what has been charged by many another foe of Censor Sumner: that the Society's operatives functioned as agents provocateurs, habitually duped reluctant booksellers and printers into selling contraband books or erotic pictures, and then arrested them. The Society sued. Publisher Macfadden engaged as counsel Morris L. Ernst, defender of many a "liberal" cause...