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...Exeter, that it had tried to help a much beloved ex-President of the United States to make a little money for his old age and that any corrupt political 'hookup' or intent could not be shown as to its 'preferred customers list.' No tar could be spattered upon the name of Morgan yesterday. So the committee adjourned early. It was, as we say, a dull...
...having on its faculty George Bernard Shaw's biographer Archibald Henderson, for the leisurely atmosphere of its green old campus at Chapel Hill. Athletically it is notable because the members of its teams, instead of naming themselves after wild animals, are quite content to be called "tar heels'"; and because its tennis team in the last four years has won 62 consecutive matches. When North Carolina's tennists last week completed their fifth tour of Northern colleges they had beaten Navy, Maryland, N. Y. U., Army, Yale, Harvard, Brown. The score of the Army match...
...competition with Duke is unique. There are 200 players on a side. Another reason is North Carolina's tennis coach, brown little John Kenfield who has been going down to Chapel Hill between seasons at the Lake Shore Country Club at Glencoe, Ill. since 1928. That spring the Tar Heels lost two matches. The next year they lost to Princeton. Since then they have lost to no one. Mild and affable in demeanor, North Carolina's Coach Kenfield is a strict disciplinarian. In 1930 he benched his No. i player for breaking training. Before he turned professional...
According to the Daily Tar Heel, undergraduate newspaper of the University of North Carolina, The Columbia Spectator is the best college newspaper in this country and Canada. Among other tidbits in his article, the Tar Heel's editorial chairman declares that "the current depression has exercised little effect on the tone and quality of collegiate journalism...
First explosion occurred in one of the great tar reservoirs adjoining the benzol factory. Alarm whistles sounded instantly. While fountains of blazing tar shot into the air, a rescue squad hurried toward the plant. Not one lived to reach it. Some of the burning tar fell on a gas tank 270 feet high, 150 feet in diameter. Houses crumpled like cards. Like a vast clay pigeon the top of the tank skimmed over the city and crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There...