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After his capture Hale was brought to the headquarters of General William Howe in Manhattan's Beekman Mansion (at what is now the corner of First Avenue and 51st Street), where he volunteered his name, rank and mission. He was condemned to death, and held overnight in the greenhouse of the mansion. The next morning, Sept. 22, 1776, at 11 a.m., he was hanged at a point which is now 66th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. His calm dignity and poise made a deep impression on Captain John Montresor, an aide-de-camp to General Howe...
Behind Andreson for the varsity were Charles Thomas, 51st, Pete Churchill, 68th, and Chris Ingraham, 69th. Captain Ebbe Dane was 73rd and three other team members failed to finish among the first...
...Washington dinner on the 51st anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight, Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe last week called for a national act of bold pioneering that might be as fruitful as Kitty Hawk...
...industrial corporations in 1909, only 36 appeared on a similar list drawn up for 1948. U.S. Steel dropped from first place to third; Standard Oil (later Jersey Standard) moved up from second to first. Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list (General Motors, second; Standard...
...51st Dragon, taken from the text by the late Heywood Broun, is the second cartoon in U.P.A.'s (United Productions of America) series of comic legends for moderns. Like the first, an animation of James Thurber's Unicorn in the Garden (TIME, Oct. 26), it is a nasal little ballad that ends with a sly intellectual hiccup. The admirers of Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker and Porky Pig are not likely to be broken up with hilarity. Still, it is refreshing to laugh at an idea instead of an oink, and the kidding of medieval styles...