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...will of the late Adolph J. Sabath, Democratic Representative from Illinois, who died at the age of 86 two days after being elected to his 24th consecutive term in the House, was filed for probate in Chicago. Sabath, who arrived in Baltimore in 1881 as an immigrant from Czechoslovakia with $2 in his pocket, left an estate valued...
Yale's 1953 football team will play nine games, including an October 24th meeting with Colgate. Navy will not be on the schedule for the first time in three years...
...July 1918, a modest but memorable ceremony took place. On the afternoon of the 24th the foundation stones of the Hebrew University were laid on Mount Scopus . . . The declining sun flooded the hills of Judea and Moab with golden light, and it seemed to me, too, that the transfigured heights were watching ... dimly aware, perhaps, that this was the beginning of the return of their own people after many days. Below us lay Jerusalem, gleaming like a jewel...
...remedy this situation, 300 delegates from 25 lands gathered in Paris last week for the 24th International Congress Against Alcoholism. Flower-hatted old teapots from English vicarages, prune-juice-quaffing prohibitionists representing teetotalers from Finland to Madagascar, they seemed to divide into two categories: 1) the All-Drys, mainly British and Scandinavian; 2) the Half-Wets, preponderantly French...
...week's vacation and 72nd birthday celebration at his paper mill in northern Quebec, Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick last week came back to work. He stepped briskly out of the elevator of Chicago's Tribune Tower into his oval-shaped office on the 24th floor, greeted his secretary and asked: "Will you please call WGN [the Trib's radio station'] and ask them for the correct time?" A moment later she announced that it was 11:21. McCormick carefully set the gold-banded watch on his right wrist and the silver-banded...