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...well as if he had designed it. Just as inquisitive, just as skeptical, are the Industry's other engineers, including such men as Studebaker's Delmar ("Barney") Roos, Hupmobile's Frank E. Watts, Reo's Horace T. Thomas, Auburn's Herbert Snow (formerly with Winton Co.), Hudson's S. G. Baits, Franklin's E. S. Marks (designer of the improved air-cooled motor), Nash's N. E. Wahlberg...
Scene of The Last Adam is New Winton, a Connecticut village complete with selectmen, gossips, bootlegger, post-office politicians, curmudgeons, lady of the manor, puritans, pagans. Author Cozzens introduces the strands of New Winton's life through the neat modern medium of the local telephone exchange, where the operators are so well known they are always called by name, act as a matter of course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson...
...will confess that I think of myself as being entirely New England and having an almost proprietary knowledge of it. You know the kind of thing I mean-a struggle with myself not to be a little bit Olympian when other people talk about it." His New Winton may be Kent, Conn, (where he went to school for six years) but he has left Kent School out of his picture. Nor has he recognizably drawn 'one of Kent's saltiest characters-as individual, in his way, as Cozzens' Dr. Bull-Kent School's famed headmaster, Father...
...Billy") Jerome, 67. music publisher and composer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Among his hits: "Bedelia," "That Old Irish Mother of Mine," "Row, Row, Row," "Chinatown," and his latest, "Get Out and Get Under the Moon." His wife, the former Maude Nugent, wrote "Sweet Rosie O'Grady." Died. Alexander Winton, 72, pioneer automobile manufacturer; of old age; in Cleveland. He was born in Scotland, son of a farm tool maker. His Winton Motor Carriage Co. (incorporated 1897) was first to use a self-starter (compressed air) in the U. S. In Detroit in 1901 he raced with Henry Ford...
...team was soundly thrashed by some Choate schoolboys, 46 to o. Florida, heavily penalized for unneces- sary roughness in the second quarter, took an unnecessarily rough beating from Ala bama, 41 to o. The Hill School, drilled by Princeton's longtime coach, Councilman William Winton ("Bill") Roper, ran up five touch downs in the second half to beat Gilman. 32 to o. Tulsa beat Mexico City 89 to o. Mex ico City's coach. Fred Linehan, Yale guard in 1930, explained the mishap: "The Mexican linemen would not think of try ing to hit an opponent hard. They...