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...Whoop Left. Almost two hours before the President showed up to take the oath of office, the men of Battery D were in their seats in the stands. They rose as one man and yelled when Harry Truman appeared. Later, they took their positions in two long lines on either side of his car-sedate-looking fellows, carrying canes-and walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine...
...players, who helped rank Harvard second in the Ivy League standings, were voted positions on the team at a meeting of New England coaches. High-scoring players like Don Louria and Whoop Batchelder did not make the champion team...
Cornell tallied in the first six minutes of play on a long shot fired from the left wing which Crimson goalie Whoop Batchelder deflected but could not stop. Within five more minutes, the big Red had scored again when a kick from a Cornell halfback bounced away from Batchelder and the center forward booted...
George Penndorf, playing right wing for the physical education students, tapped in the single score from a mole in front of the Harvard goalmouth. Crimson goalie Whoop Batchelder, who throughout the game made a series of spectacular saves, was blocked out of the scoring play by the scrambling Crimson defenders...
...railroads, which usually talk to the public in conservative full-page ads and statistics, last week tried it with whoop-de-do and the can can. To mark the 100th anniversary of the first train out of Chicago, some 37 railroads and 30 equipment makers chipped in $12 million to make their Railroad Fair the biggest since the New York World's Fair. They packed 50 acres of Chicago's lake shore with sideshows, pageants, new coaches and exhibits, including this iron horse, a replica of the Best Friend of Charleston (1830), first U.S. -built locomotive in regular...