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...three other such cases, won $35,000 for the mother of a man who was shot dead in a saloon brawl, another $1,200 for an Armenian who got his skull cracked during a crap game in a saloon when he persisted in kibitzing after a superstitious dice-thrower complained that he was a jinx...
Pennypacker, who died in 1933, was intimately connected with the University for the greater part of his life. As an undergraduate he starred on the track team as a shot-putter and hammer-thrower. From 1918-20 he was the headmaster of the Boston Latin School. In 1920 he became Chairman of the Committee on Admission here, a position which he held until his death. He was closely connected with athletics, being on the Committee for the Regulation of Athletics for fifteen years and Chairman of the Athletic Committee...
Likewise encouraging was the showing of the weight men in the afternoon, for both Bort Littman and Steve Bronnan came in to gain second places in the shot and weight throws respectively, although both of them were well back of the winners, Yale's thrower John Harvard Castle and the Big Green's putter Geniawiez...
Navy Department makes surprisingly good entertainment. En route to the Olympic Games as a javelin thrower, Phil Donlan (Paul Kelly) unwisely lets himself be involved in a shipboard party celebrating the elopement of two of his fellow passengers. Their marriage fails to materialize but he gets tossed off the Olympic squad and out of the New York Police Department for drunkenness. When it turns out that the young lady (June Travis) responsible for his predicament, daughter of a hard-boiled colonel of Marines, is in love with him, Phil enlists under her father but any chance that this will mean...
...ruthless Dictator is practical. He and Trotsky are always spitting in each other's face, but at an Oriental bazaar the rug dealers think nothing of a little saliva-and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings. If, by invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were...