Word: alphonso
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Three months ago. young Alphonso Mires (alias Meyers, alias Mieri), 19-year-old son of a Manhattan greengrocer, set out to hold up a cigar store. With several companions he bound the clerk, shooed a patron into a telephone booth, rifled the till. All was going nicely when a negro entered the store. The bewildered intruder was ordered out of the way, then shot down. Alphonso Mires's confreres said...
...youngsters in making up that year's freshman class, there was born within him a loyalty and devotion to Yale that grew stronger and deeper with the passing of each of his 72 years. He knew his whole class; his whole class knew him as the son of Alphonso Taft, '33, the brother of Charles, '64, and Peter, '67 Taft. In his sophomore year his father became, first, President Grant's Secretary of War and, next, his Attorney General. "Bill" Taft was president of the Freshman Boat Club, won a first prize with a sophomore...
...substituted it is certain that he will be in one of the nine matches. The match between Tarangoli and B. H. Whitbeck '29, in the first singles promises to be the feature of the afternoon. Whitbeck lost but one match on the Southern trip and that to C. Alphonso Smith, a national star, while Tarangoli is the holder of the Metropolitan Mens' Indoor Championship...
...victory in a series of matches in which much sparkling tennis was displayed. The two teams divided the singles matches and it was Harvard's 2 to 1 edge in the doubles that gave them victory. The feature matches were Whitbeck's defeat by C. Alphonso Smith, national star and Ingraham's three set victory over Taylor...
...photographed. Nothing less than a royal occasion persuaded Brother Sosthenes, in 1924, to pose with the nobles, the diplomats and churchmen of Spain. The occasion was, of course, the opening of the new Spanish telephone system, and royalty was present in the person of His Most Catholic Majesty, King Alphonso XIII...