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...Stoughton led, 2 to 0, until the last play of the third period, when Matthews' Mike Basile heaved a touchdown pass to Paul Grand. Stoughton came back for a tally of their own on the very next play, however, when Al Kennedy caught a pass from Bill Beecher and scored after a 45-yard run. The loss was Matthews North's third...
...born on Staten Island in 1862-the rebellious daughter of a staid Republican-was descended from revolutionary soldiers and related to Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens. She had met Walt Whitman, Henry Ward Beecher and Robert Ingersoll. Thrice married, she was the mother of six children, wrote children's books. She was 57 when she joined the Communist Party in 1919, certain that it could be an instrument for good...
Died. Bishop George Allen Beecher, 83, senior member of the House of Bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church and pioneer preacher of the old West; after long illness; in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He went to Nebraska in 1882, roved a vast territory in a pony cart, bivouacking at night on the open prairie, became a friend of Sitting Bull, toured Europe with Colonel William ("Buffalo Bill") Cody's Wild West show...
...Rough" is the term usually applied to productions like Pl Eta's "A Doctor in Spite of Himself." Rough, because what starts out to be Mollere ends up as a cross between Olsen and Johnson and Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a blatantly amateurish production, whose cast decided about halfway through the first act that it would be more fun to ham Mollere than to perform...
...number of Christian leaders met in Manhattan's Garden Street Dutch Reformed Church to discuss the country's need for Bibles. Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was among them; so was Preacher Lyman Beecher. Then & there, the American Bible Society was founded. Elias Boudinot of New Jersey, a onetime president of the Continental Congress, was its first president; its vice president was John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...