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...Blanket Charge. In Fresno, Calif., when police picked him up in an orange grove and booked him for drunkenness, Roy Hutchinson righteously protested: "I am an unemployed smoke signal sender...
...Hutterites and other German pietist sects, the Amanas came to the U.S. from the Rhineland to escape state and established-church persecution for their beliefs, soon followed their prophet-leaders out to till 18,000 acres (since increased to 25,000) of rich Iowa prairie; they set up blanket mills and furniture shops, quarried sandstone and dug red clay for bricks to build austere homes and churches...
Spreading a blanket in the alfalfa, Lamore lay on his back, braced his boots in stirrups on the shaft, pulled back the string with both hands and sent a 25-in. fir-and-pine arrow whiffling into the sun. When bug-eyed officials at the 75th annual tournament of the National Archery Association finally found Lamore's arrow 937.13 yds. away, they discovered that he had broken the old N.A.A. record for distance flight by nearly 50 yds. But Lamore, one of 1,000,000 toxophilites in the booming sport of archery, was just warming up. Half an hour...
Esplanade Concerts. Arthur Fieldler conducts members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in free open-air concerts every evening at 8:30 (except July 4) until July 10 in the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade. Take blanket and subway to Charles Station...
...think it's right," says Brigman who obviously fels he has many years of valuable research still in him. The professor objects to the blanket rule that has been the policy of the Corporation since Lowell. For the Corporation, this is just a practical financial measure that is completely impersonal. They can only afford to contribute a certain amount to scientific research and they prefer to give assistance to current professors. Bridgman himself has never lodged an official complaint as he feels "it doesn't put a man in a pleasant position to have to urge the value...