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...jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer and owner of the New York Yankees (see p. 20), if winning baseball championships had given him his biggest thrills in life. Replied the Colonel: "Yes and no. . . . Looking back now I doubt if I ever felt more elated than when I was a youngster and on occasions would go galloping out driving the ambulance to bring in one of our ailing brewery wagon horses. And what a thrill I had once when I mounted the seat and actually took out one of our tandem outfits. . . . When the elevated railroad structures were built it sounded...
...Department, closest to his heart of all executive agencies, President Hoover turned to Detroit, picked breezy, bustling, ambitious Roy Dikeman Chapin, board chairman of Hudson Motor Car Co. Long have Mr. Chapin's friends known of his yearning for high public office. Now 52, he started as a youngster in Ransom E. Olds's automobile factory, photographing Oldsmobiles for the catalog. At 24 he was the Olds sales manager, drove the first car from Detroit to New York in one week, the tonneau piled high with spare parts. He helped organize the Hudson company, became its president...
...after day the betting odds in Tokyo favored Baron Hiranuma but finally old Prince Saionji took the nation by surprise, bethought himself of a retired admiral who served as Naval Minister in the last Cabinet of which Prince Saionji was Premier (1911-12). Quite a youngster is this Admiral, only...
...that the Pulitzer Poetry Prize has been conferred on curly-headed youngster George Dillon (TIME, May 9), poetry-addicts will reach off their shelves two volumes not yet dog's-eared from fervent use. These volumes will be Boy in the Wind (1929) and The Flowering Stone (1931), which later won its author, besides the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim award...
Napoleon Bonaparte." Napoleon Bonaparte probably never said any such thing. But he might have last week if he had been a U. S. youngster. Word was out that President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University was hunting six precocious, prodigious students, aged from 13 to 15, whom he would admit as freshmen next September (TIME, Feb. 22). President Scott cited a number of wunderkinder whom he would like to see matched under modern conditions. He announced he would get high school superintendents to ferret them out. But much to everybody's surprise it took no ferreting. By last week President...