People, Apr. 30, 1934

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Of gas-station attendants Scientist Robbert A. Millikan said: "Why, they have improved the manners and the courtesy and the consideration of the American public more than all the colleges in the country."

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"Well, thank goodness, he's croaked." Those words carried clearly from the auditorium jampacked with students of Ohio's Kent State College up to the stage where Dancer Ted Shawn with his group was miming the end of his interpretation of John Brown. A few snickers followed. Dancer Shawn played on until the last curtain...

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