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Rockafellar was attacked by four hoodlums across Memorial Drive opposite Winthrop House. He called in the University police, but it soon developed that his case came under the jurisdiction of the Charles River Basin Division of the Metropolitan District Commission Police...
...Saturday, the varsity scored a decisive victory in the four-team preliminary competition for the Fowle Trophy. Harvard skippers Robbins, Tommy Townsend, John Weske, and George Cronin. The Freshman sailors tied Bowdoin for first place in the qualifying heats of the New England I.S.A. freshman championships, in the Charles Basin Saturday...
...late September, the day was warm; a stiff breeze whipped the flags atop the big tents and sent dust tides eddying and whirling among them. From the speaker's platform, a sea of humanity stretched away to the rim of the shallow natural basin, where the crowd had gathered. Here, on rolling land near Newton, Iowa, some 80,000 American farmers and townsmen, their wives, kids and relatives assembled last week for the granddaddy of all harvest fairs: the National Field Days, better known as the National Plowing Contest. Now they were giving their attention to their honorary chairman...
...lesser culture, that of the primitive peoples in the little-explored state of Guerrero on Mexico's Pacific watershed, is a new favorite among collectors. On show this week at Manhattan's André Emmerich gallery was the first exhibit of art objects from the Mezcala River basin. So little regarded that until a few years ago they could be bought for as little as $15, choice examples now bring up to $500 and over...
...climate grew still warmer, it melted much bigger masses of ice in Siberia and North America. The water released raised the sea level, and the Atlantic Ocean ate its way southward over the "Doggerland" in the basin of the North Sea. By examining peat from the sea bottom, Dr. Godwin can tell the date when the salt water flowed over each...