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Gravem found the pretty strokes of Sam Schoonmaker a bit too tough as he lost, 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 to the Yale number three man. Heckscher tired badly in the third set of his match with Newel Augur...
...Somerville, 6-3, 6-2, to assure the Crimson of a win in the H-Y-P match and give them a 4-3 lead in the League match. However, the team of Place and Gottlieb, playing together for the first time, seemed certain to bow to Schoonmaker and Augur...
...SECRET WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, by Helen Augur (Duell, Sloan & Pearce -Little, Brown; $4.75), details Franklin's efforts to supply the American colonies under the nose of the world's greatest maritime power...
...tell his detectives to gather witnesses. Four soldiers bore the mortally wounded President to a tailor's house across from the theater. Word flashed that an attacker had stabbed Secretary of State Seward, bedridden by a recent accident. Washington's army commandant, General Christopher C. Augur, sent patrols out helter-skelter and waited for orders from his chief, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. With another Cabinet member, Stanton hurried from the bedside of Seward to the tailor's house and set up a frantic headquarters there. While the President lay bleeding in a hall bedroom...
...scrap of paper which Wetherbee says was "tucked beneath the flap of the envelope as though it had been an afterthought," the message read--"Have you ever discovered a Transmittindum in your room, a parchment scroll with the names of all the occupants of the room, in an augur hole in the top of one of the doors. My brother occupied 19 Matthews in 1879 and it was there then...