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...acre farm he had bought sight unseen, Julian hoped that their moving days were over. Mr. Howard was a bookish, improvident schoolteacher whose every move was to the Promised Land. Mrs. Howard was a philosopher with a weak heart. Julian, the only child, was a level-headed youngster who saw through his father's grown-up dignity to the helpless human being behind it. Mr. Howard, full of the intellectual's passion for the land, and a small pocketful of savings, was no match for the hard-headed natives. They sold him worthless stock and too-expensive machinery...
...year. Aboard the Peace Ship were Rosika Schwimmer with a black bag full of papers from the Premiers of Europe, Feminist Inez Milholland, Publisher Samuel S. McClure, Judge B. B. Lindsey, Governor Louis B. Hanna of North Dakota, many another headliner of that era. Also aboard was a husky youngster of 21 who was neither distinguished nor naïve. The name of Emil Hurja was on the Oscar II's passenger list because the University of Washington was sending this student abroad as its peace delegate. Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt's chances of being re-elected...
...runners, hurlers and jumpers, including 18 world-record holders and 14 onetime Olympic team members, crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to test their training. The National Amateur Athletic Union championships, always a climax to the indoor season, this year took on ½added significance. Many a youngster decided to show the 100-odd, owl-faced, stiff-shirted officials that he, as well as the old standbys, deserved a trip to Berlin for the summer Olympics...
After some ups & downs the youngster fully recovered, enabling Father Watson, 60, and Son Watson, 32, to write a joint report which the Journal of the American Medical Association published last week. One point the Watsons wanted emphasized: "As far as we can determine . . . this is the first time autotransfusion has been used in the treatment of this type of injury...
...final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years younger than Tama-nishiki and 100 lb. lighter, gave a miserable account of himself from the start of the ten-day round robin. Not he but Omekawa, potbellied youngster who had won nine of his ten matches, opposed undefeated Gargantuan Tama-nishiki in the final. The match, of titanic length for Japanese wrestlers, whose endurance is not their most noteworthy characteristic, lasted three minutes. When the referee waved his fan over the winner, puffing Tama-nishiki advanced to the centre...