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...James A, Naismith, 69, director of physical education at University of Kansas since 1898, originator of the game of basketball 40 years ago, slipped & fell in the bathtub in his Lawrence, Kan. home and broke two ribs. He was a teacher in the Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield, Mass. when he originated basketball, first played by teams of seven players with a soccer football and ordinary conical peachbaskets. The idea of the game spread faster than the rules, and each section of the U. S. played its own brand until the game was standardized...
Astonished, pleased and proud were Manhattan Capitalist & Mrs. Robert Goelet when they returned from Europe few weeks ago to discover that their son Peter, 20, had erected a short-wave broadcasting station, KWKY, on their estate at Chester, N. Y. Over it Capitalist Goelet broadcast his views on the Depression, Unemployment, conditions abroad; Mrs. Goelet hers on "Why We Should Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment." Station KWKY hummed merrily until the Federal Radio Commission informed Capitalist Goelet that the unlicensed station was illegal, that it must be dismantled...
...Jacob J. ("Jake") Shubert were born in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1900 they came to New York and bucked the powerful Klaw & Erlanger theatrical trust by renting the Herald Square Theatre and persuading resonant Richard Mansfield to act in it. Five years later Sam Shubert was killed in a Pennsylvania Railroad wreck. Lee and Jake (who hates to be called Jake in print) carried on the business and prospered mightily. They bought theatres, built theatres (with the assistance of innumerable unofficial partners). They made New York's most imposing music hall out of an old riding ring on Broadway...
...occasion acute nervousness, ribaldry or disgust. In spite of the fact that this is well-known, the movement for public sex education has gone slowly, necessarily from the higher branches downwards. Last week there came evidence of its present situation. Willard Walcott Beatty, superintendent of schools in Bronxville. N. Y., wrote for the New York Times an account of the seventh-grade course which has been given in his schools for the last five years...
...American Federation for Sex Hygiene who in 1914 helped found the American Social Hygiene Association. Director today of the Association's Division of Educational Measures and Consultant is Dr. Max Joseph Exner. Austrian-born 60 years ago, Dr. Exner was at 19 an expert gymnast, took a Y. M. C. A. course in physical education, became physical education director at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.). Meanwhile he took college courses, studied medicine, took his M. D. degree in 1906. As director of sex education for the Y. M. C. A., he went to the border during the U. S.-Mexican...