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...Arena tonight, said she began to practice skating when only seven years old, first on roller skates, and then on the ice. She captured her first championship for fancy skating in 1924 at the age of eleven. Her father, who won the world's bicycle championship in Antwerp in 1893, then took her to Chamonix in France, where she had her first opportunity to see the international women skaters compete in the Olympic games...
Other volumes of interest in the same case include one entitled "New England's First Fruits". This is the first printed account of Harvard and was published in London in 1643. There is also on display President Dunster's Hebrew and Greek Bible, printed by Plantin in Antwerp in 1573. Dunster, who was Harvard's first president, had his bookplate in Greek pasted at the foot of the title page, and as it is dated 1638, it shows that it was printed while he was still in residence in the University of Cambridge. The Dunster family Bible is another volume...
...Prinsens-Gade, with its flag over the door and the costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive, the most profitable in Oslo. As a boy he liked to ride bicycles, and won the world's amateur championship at Antwerp in 1893. Pleased that his little girl had inherited a snub nose from her Irish grandmother, he taught her to skate when she was seven...
According to what The Times has heard from Cologne "via Paris, the unfortunate Belgian priests who refused to ring the church bells when Antwerp was taken have been sentenced to hard labor...
According to information to the Corriere della Sera from Cologne via London, it is confirmed that the barbaric conquerors of Antwerp punished the unfortunate Belgian priests for their heroic refusal to ring the church bells by hanging them as living clappers to the bells with their heads down. Le Matin (Paris...