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...President Hoover carried his home town, Palo Alto, Calif., 176-to-45. Governor Roosevelt lost his native Dutchess County, N. Y...
Alter Ego. Col. Howe, the President-elect's alter ego, was born in Saratoga, N. Y. Twenty-two years ago he was Albany correspondent for the old New York Herald, when State Senator Roosevelt arrived at the Capitol. A warm friendship developed between them. "Franklin" took "Louis" to the Navy Department with him in 1913 as private secretary, had him at his side during the 1920 campaign. Col. Howe is credited with digging up the "Happy Warrior" phrase with which Mr. Roosevelt twice nominated Al Smith. He handles the Governor's private mail, private business, private house in Manhattan. During...
...triple passes. Choate's quarterback and captain, a Jack Stonebraker of Hagerstown. Md., is so averse to all forms of effort that he sometimes walks across the goal line to make a touchdown if there are no tacklers near him. Choate's guards are Cubans: Miguel Mendoza y Kindelan and Eneas Antonio Freyre de Andrede. Right tackle is Oilman Joshua Cosden's son Joshua Jr. Last week Choate finished its season with its 12th victory in a row, 40 to 7, against Kent...
...Irving Langmuir at 51 remains inquisitive. His current scientific fun is to study the formation of ice on Lake George, N. Y. where he has a camp. Somehow wintertime always fascinated him. He learned to ski and sail-skate in Switzerland, has skiied throughout the Catskills and Adirondacks, climbed Mounts Washington and Marcy on skiis...
With 55,000 seats already sold for the Harvard-Yale game, to be played at New Haven this Saturday, H. A. A. and Y. A. A. officials believe it is quite likely the Bowl will be completely sold out before the day of the encounter. The sale of seats thus far has already guaranteed Yale the largest crowd of the eastern season...