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...meet lasted through two hot, dusty afternoons at Franklin Field. The first day, when a light breeze scarcely spun the wind indicator, Southern California was the favorite until Coach Robert Lyman ("Dink") Templeton surprised everyone by entering his star quarter-miler, Ben Eastman, in the half-mile heats. Eastman, said to have the most saving style of any middle-distance runner in history, won so easily that critics began to see how Stanford, with 16 men qualified for the finals to Southern California's 13, might pile up enough points to win the next afternoon...
...accelerate his effortless pace into the burst of speed a middle distance runner often needs for the finish. Williams was three steps in front at the tape. Third man was an obscure Southern Californian, Art Woessner, whom no one had expected to place. In the half-mile, however, Coach Templeton's strategy of entering Eastman was rewarded. He won it brilliantly, after getting into a pocket and running around his field. Eastern runners took all the point positions behind...
Last week the trial of Lila Jimerson for first-degree murder began in Buffalo. Suddenly the U. S. Government became interested in its ward, the defendant. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell instructed Richard Harkness Templeton, U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, to take over Lila Jimerson's defense in the state court. When Mr. Templeton presented himself, with evident reluctance, at the trial, the state prosecutor, Guy Moore, fairly bellowed his protest...
...deeply resent this eleventh-hour and unwarranted interference by Washington bureaucracy! I object to Mr. Templeton's unfair interjection into this case. He has no right here! I request the court...
...When Mr. Templeton asked for a long adjournment of the trial so he could study the case, the judge's turn to explode came: "The Attorney General of the U. S. is not running this court. Motion denied." Thereafter Mr. Templeton took a very minor part in the Jimerson defense. His presence in the state court was largely due to Kaw-blooded Vice President Charles Curtis, who asked the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to look after Red Lilac's rights. When asked to explain his interest in the case, Mr. Curtis declared it was "only casual...