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Trudging home last week through a cool birch forest, peasants of the Polish town of Ciechanow heard for the eighth time a horrible sound-the agonized scream of a little girl. Seven times in the past three weeks little girls, all between 3 and 6, had been found in meadows and clumps of forest stabbed in the stomach and bleeding badly. A horrid boy, they said, who grunted like an animal had attacked them with a knife, sucked their blood and disappeared. Two of the little girls bled to death before they could be hospitalized...
Today the team will face Dartmouth in its second match. The Green golfers will be hard to beat with Birch, Ogg, and Ryder playing the first three positions, but Coach Clark Hodder thinks Harvard will show some improvement over yesterday's showing. The only change in the lineup will be Francis S. North '36 in place of Mansfield Branigan...
Peterson's play is noteworthy because he was naturally under a nervous strain, competing against the 75 already chalked up by Chester Birch, captain of the Dartmouth team...
...aggregation of St. Nicholas welcomers will convene at 13 Birch Street at 8 o'clock Thanksgiving morning. Here groups will be assigned to the mammoth rubber animals which measure up to forty feet in length and twenty feet in height. Owing to the fact that the balloon creatures are inflated with gas and are of such magnitude, it is expected that a number of Harvard men will guard each animal in an attempt to maintain its state of captivity...
Part I was Geyer Co. of Dayton and Manhattan, founded in 1912 by the late C. J. Geyer, business manager of the Dayton Herald. His son, Bertram Birch Geyer, 42, had built up the agency into a large and profitable business. Young Mr. Geyer is a great and good friend of Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors' research chief. Cornerstone of the Geyer business has been several big accounts of General Motors, including Delco, Inland Manufacturing and Frigidaire, with its $5,000,000 annual appropriation. Well did Geyer Co. earn General Motors' patronage for it has handled Frigidaire...