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With these figures at his fingertips, it takes Big Dan but a few minutes to persuade Grocer Paddock, Banker Winton, Realtor Jones, Judge Burnes and Major Riley of Westover?members of five different denominations?to accept from him, blushingly, and administer, a foundation of $2,559,494.08 to build three nondenominational "temples" costing $500,000 apiece. Invested at 5%, the $1,059,494.08 surplus over building costs will yield $52,974.70 per annum, or $17,658.23 per temple, or more than five times the annual expenses of each of the 44 present Westover churches. Big Dan explains that preachers, powerless...
...seen, and marked suspiciously, a monster, oldtime touring car-a traffic-scarred 1915 Winton or an even older Fierce-Arrow, whose tarnished brass and torn leather adumbrated a bygone respectability-rolling heavily but with sinister smoothness through his city's streets, the big tonneau jammed to the guards with a lounging, ill-favored crew of foreign-blooded males whose pull-down caps and brooding faces caused the beholder to murmur: "Lordy, what a bunch of yeggs...
...Franklin Winton Ryon, A.B., M.B.A. (Banking...
Baseball next spring will be without Winton, Warburton, Lee and Savage, as well as Trimble and Strubing. The track team will lose seven men, namely, Captain Erdman, Trowbridge and Bugby in the hurdles; Brown and Clark in the sprints, and Cleveland and Baird in the field events. Crew is the only major sport to lose but three men. They are Rosenbaum, Derry and Captain Lamont...
...Winton, the rangy Princeton first baseman, will be out of the game today because of an attack of appendicitis. His loss will greatly weaken the Tigers, for he was not only the steadiest man in an infield that is subject to streaks of wildness, but he has also been very effective as fifth man on the batting order...