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Alan McClennen won the University single sculls championship yesterday over the mile distance on a rough Charles River course. He edged out Ben Bolt, third in the same race a year ago, by one-and-one-half lengths in the slow time...
...grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants to buy-a bolt of cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle-it is almost invariably an Indian dukah wallah in a filthy, tin-roofed shop that sells to him. In Kenya, Asians pay one-third of the colony's indirect taxes and run some of Nairobi's smartest shops; in Zanzibar they...
Once again the South is threatening to bolt from the Democratic party. Five southern states, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas are planning to refuse to bind their Presidential electors to the national party ticket. This is obviously a first step in creating a Dixiecrat movement in the Southern states that stand firmly against the Supreme Court integration decree...
Nylon Rifle. Remington Arms will put on sale a .22-cal. rifle made of nylon except for a steel barrel and bolt assembly. The rifle is one-third lighter than present models, is more durable and not hurt by water. Price...
...Barbara (dates unknown) was said to have been martyred by her idolatrous father for refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods, whereupon a bolt of lightning struck him and he burned to death. Hence, by association, she is patron saint of gunners...