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...June, the News will celebrate its centennial. The first issue (circ. 225), reporting TERRIBLE FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO (which had happened six months before), was edited by Willard Richards, Prophet Smith's secretary. It was printed on presses shipped from the East; the early Latter-Day Saints had paid the expenses by chipping in beans, hams and venison. Today's Latter-Day Saints are still made to feel responsible for the paper's support. The church sends the paper free to a nonsubscribing Mormon for two weeks. Then, if the new reader wishes to cancel the "subscription...
Theodore Cooke Nelson '52, of West Hartford, Connecticut, and Lowell House was elected assistant manager for next year in the sophomore competition, Samuel Willard Bridge, Jr. '52, of Wellesley Hills and Eliot House, will be associate manager of freshman hockey...
President Truman appointed Dunlop to the three-man fact finding board on February 6, at the start of the coal strike. The other members of the board vere Chairman David L. Cole '21 and W. Willard Wirtz LL.B...
Growing up in the little southern Indiana town of Petersburg, Willard Brenton Hargrave was regarded as a dull boy. Playmates called him "Dummy." Teachers despaired of his learning anything. At 13 the Methodist preacher's son was in juvenile court, threatened with reform school. But the judge, noticing that Willard Hargrave seemed to pay little attention to the court proceedings, wondered whether he had heard what went on. A doctor's examination showed that the "dummy" was half deaf, probably as a result of chicken...
After World War 1 duty as a bugler, Willard Hargrave worked in Los Angeles as a newsman and pressagent. He studied furiously, read what little he could find about the antisocial effects of deafness, particularly in juvenile delinquency. His National Auricular Foundation, set up in 1938 next door to Los Angeles County's Juvenile Hall, has tested the hearing of 40,000 youngsters. Hargrave holds no medical degree but has turned himself into an expert audiometrist, has lectured on audiology to graduate audiences in several California universities...