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Longest run of the week-10-5 yd.-was Herb McAnly's, helping Florida swamp Sewanee, 19 to 0. Biggest score of the week-105 to 0-was by Murray (Ky.) Teachers College, scoreless in its first two games, against the University of Louisville...
...demented professor (William Ingersoll) grows a gigantic spider. He is assisted by a Japanese butler (Harold deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm. The spider runs amok, hangs the two convicts from the rafters, drains them of blood, but not before...
...horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root}, invested shrewdly, bought the prosperous Binghamton, N. Y., Press. When people used to ask what Swamproot was good for, Mr. Kilmer would grunt : "Good for $100,000 a year...
...novelist's final absolution to the world-she writes of her characters as they would write of themselves. In her latest novel Authoress Delmar writes of three women and takes pains to show, not only that they lived, but that they lived too long. The thesis would swamp the book if the characters did not keep bailing it out. Katherine Bazin hates life after her husband leaves her, nurses her tuberculosis in hopes of death. When her husband unexpectedly returns she longs to live, but she dies. Her daughter Lou is happy when she and her husband Chappy...
Most memorable was the case of Pilot Arthur Rigney and his passenger, I. J. Escalante, who elected to take a short cut across the pathless swamps south of Lake Okeechobee on their way to the races, instead of following the established airway from Tampa. The throttle rod of their Bird biplane broke; down the ship slanted, gently but permanently, into the 6-ft. swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue...