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This play by the fullback reached its Harlow zenith in 1937, when the famous Vernon Struck spinned, reversed, and faked his way into the pages of sports history. This year, Coach Lamar has based many of his plans on a regular T. But fullback Bob Cowen still does the major part of the spinning and faking...
Married. Dorothy Ledyard Knight, former wife of Manhattan's hooligan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev. Fumed ex-Husband Knight: "He's nothing but a traveling salesman-a peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will come crawling back...
...first time since the early days of the Republic, a Cabinet member reported in person to Congress. Cordell Hull, appearing in the House before the two great bodies, facing kleig lights, the Diplomatic Corps, Cabinet members and packed galleries, stood at the zenith of his career. But the 72-year-old Tennessee mountaineer, cool and reserved as ever, made no play for the greatest gallery of his life. In his own way, cautious but sure, steady and tenacious, he hammered away again at the cardinal tenets of his diplomatic philosophy. Thus he made no stirring show, and not much news...
...Zenith Radio Corp. gave out some deafening whoops last week in praise of its new cut-rate hearing aid. Zenith believes that this new $40 device (good hearing aids now cost from $100 to $200) will sharpen the ears of 10,000,000 deaf U. S. citizens...
...seemed ridiculous that Zenith and other companies could sell a good little radio for around $29 or less, while a one-pound hearing aid, essentially a part of a radio receiver, might cost eight or nine times as much. So for the last five and a half years Zenith's engineers have worked at the new hearing device and a way to mass-produce it. Besides the economy of mass production, costs are cut by 1) providing the device with a tone regulator so that the wearer can adjust his own aid, eliminating professional "fittings," 2) providing rubber earpieces...