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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the neics Czar Professional football has become big business. Last year the National league played 55 games to almost 1,500,000 people. Now the league, modeled after big-time baseball, base-ball, has taken another step toward stability. Elmer Layden, 'one of Notre Dame's "Four Horsemen" back in 1924, has been named boss of the league, with powers like Kene-saw Kene-saw Landis has in baseball. Death During his 30 years in the U. S. senate, Reed Smoot, leader in the Mormon church, rose 'from an obscure member to leader of the Republican majority. He was defeated de-feated in 1933 in the Democratic sweep. The co-author of the Smoot-Hawley Smoot-Hawley tariff act died far from his native Utah, while on a visit to relatives rela-tives in Florida. He was 79 years old. |