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...header last week against Colorado College he scored 17 points in each game, brought his season total to 113, his four-year total close to 1,000. Pacific Coast. California and Washington lead their respective divisions of the conference, but Southern California provides more entertainment. Southern California's waterboy is none other than Irvine ("Cotton") Warburton, phenomenal little quarterback of the football team. Besides tending the bucket, sponging the faces of sweaty players, he serves as a sort of assistant to Coach Justin ("Sam") Barry, lately of Iowa. One of Coach Barry's stratagems...
Conductor. But it is John Joseph Kennedy who is to the New York Central what the commanders of flagships are to steamer lines. Of his apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...
...Chicago mail-order house, last week elected a new president, Charles M. Kittle, to succeed Julius Rosenwald. Because of the large trading in Sears, Roebuck shares on the New York Stock Exchange, brokerage houses, financial bigwigs evinced interest. Mr. Kittle, now 44, began his rise to fortune as a waterboy to a railroad section-gang when he was 14. At 17, he was a telegraph operator, then cashier, chief clerk, superintendent. He was general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad. During the War. he managed the Illinois Central and three additional railroads...