Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only on the field are the Trojan twain. Meadows works as a part-time janitor, plays excellent tennis for relaxation, is studying to be a physical education instructor. Inclined to be retiring, he is "unofficially" engaged to Marguerite Caswell, Western Women's sprint champion. More sociable, Sefton belongs to Phi Sigma Kappa, was cited this year as U.S.C.'s model all-round senior. At this week's intersectional meet between the Pacific Coast Conference and Big Ten track teams Earle Meadows and Bill Sefton will pole-vault as college teammates for the last time...
...Professional Golfer Helen Hicks: the Women's Western Open, only U. S. tournament for which she is eligible; by beating Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis, in the final, 6 & 5; at Chicago's Beverly Country Club. Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, only other professional entered, was eliminated in the quarterfinals...
...railroads from the Aberdeen & Rockfish to the Yreka Western, all conventional locomotives have what engineers call a ''Johnson bar" -a manually-operated seven-foot steel lever which puts the locomotive either in reverse or forward motion and also controls the flow of new steam into the boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating...
...Hamilton's emotion was that the bit of metal marked the end of a grueling six-month search for his son-in-law, Pilot S. J. Samson. Last Dec. 14, Pilot Samson took off from Los Angeles on his regular run to Salt Lake City in a Western Air Express Boeing. After stopping at Las Vegas, Nev., the twin-motored transport droned on north into a wintry night and oblivion (TIME, Dec. 28). Aboard the plane, which last reported hitting 199 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. under a "high overcast," were four passengers, a co-pilot and pretty Hostess...
Full announcement of Western trip--Plans made for tour by University Musical Clubs...