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...plot from high school: after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion-Hearted languishes in the castle of his Austrian kidnapper while Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns to England to try to scrape up ran-some money for him. But why bother with plot when there are horses and lances and axe-fights and slain knights dropping into moats like so many pebbles? The seige of Torquilstone castle is especially good. It starts in the biggest shower of arrows since Henry V, and culminates in a first-rate conflagration...

Author: By Milton S. Guirtzman, | Title: Ivanhoe | 9/27/1952 | See Source »

Stroebel, scheduled to come to trial yesterday, was arrested after he had smashed his way into a filling station with an axe. He told police he needed money to get back to Cambridge. Police said he was carrying a .38 revolver when arrested, and held him for armed burglary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stroebel Hearing Held Over Until October 24 | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

Arthur J. Stroebel '53, of Milwaukee, was arrested after he had smashed his way into a filling station with an axe to get train fare to Cambridge. Police said that he was carrying a 38 caliber revolver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Held for Armed Burglary in Wisconsin | 9/19/1952 | See Source »

...remains that he was pushed--that Yale started looking for the axe right after the season was over, and those that originally felt that Hickman jumped Yale, and there were many of us, were wrong...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Man Overboard: The Hickman Case | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...church study, Norris shot and killed an unarmed Fort Worth lumberman, D. E. Chipps, got off scot-free when he called it "self-defense." Constantly at odds with the Southern Baptists, he organized some 3,000 churches into his own Fundamentalist fellowship, urged his followers to "use the broad axe of John the Baptist, not a little pearl-handled knife, on worldly card playing, dancing, and hell raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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