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Collier's magazine, where each season Mr. Camp's choices were published under copyright. Various newspapers hire a coach or groups of coaches to choose an All-American. Other papers make studious summaries of every All-American selection available and triumphantly weed out the winners. But it remained for the New York Sun to make the most determined effort. This fall the Sun scattered football writers everywhere: on the Pacific, in the Middle West, Southwest, South, Missouri Valley, and throughout the East; 129 elevens were examined...
Readers wondered how the errors had ever reached the Herald Tribune pages. Those acquainted with the facts of newspaper life mourned for a reckless correspondent in Jackson, Mich., who had collected false facts at the wrong* Mrs. Weed's funeral and had wired them on as truth; mourned also for a telegraph editor who had sent the story to a busy copy desk without verification; mourned too for a night managing editor whose function it is (no matter what the shortcomings of his underlings) to edit and put out a perfect paper...
From the office of Frederick S. Duncan, for more than 20 years counsel for the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co. and its successor, the American Chain Co., came loud and speedy protest. He stated facts: The "Weed" tire chain was named after its inventor, Harry D. Weed, of Canastota (near Syracuse) N. Y. Under license agreement from him, the company produced Weed chains and paid all royalties therefrom for many years, later buying the patent rights. Colonel Weed is vigorously alive in Bridgeport and retains a close consulting connection with the American Chain Co., successors to the Weed Chain Tire...
...Weed is also decidedly alive; by no means penniless. They have a home at Syracuse, another at Southport, Conn.; frequently stop at the Stratfield Hotel, Bridgeport. Their son, Robert F. Weed, married Martha Lashar, daughter of Walter B. Lashar, president of the American Chain Co., and cousin of famed Thomas Lashar, onetime (1916) Yale coxswain...
...Herald Tribune had reported the death of a Mrs. Alice Weed, widow of Beverly Weed who (no relative of Col. Harry D. Weed) was falsely named as the inventor of Weed chains...