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...Boston, James Moran hired twelve men, varying from cross-eyed to farsighted, issued them muskets with blank cartridges, marched them out to Bunker Hill, reconstructed the Revolutionary battle, to prove that Captain William Prescott could not have shouted: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have...
Election of next year's Student Council officers will take place tonight at a meeting of the Council in Phillips Brooks House. Richard H. Sullivan '39, retiring president; Robert M. Bunker '39, retiring treasurer; and J. Spence Harvin, retiring secretary, will read their reports...
Chairman of the Album Board is Robert M. Bunker. Others include Harold M. Curtiss, Jr. and James Tobin who are editorial men; Robert E. L. Strider, photography; and Sullivan for Business...
...following is the list of students and their guests attending tonight's Jubilee, complete to yesterday noon: JUBILEE COMMITTEE Harvey C. Taylor Jr., bairman Laila Ernet, Brookline John P. Bunker Barbara Boyden, Winnetka, Ill. Thomas C. Carroll Melen Ransom, Nashville, Tenn. Thomas L. Higginson Sally Russell, Brookline George N. Hurd Marjorie Handy, New York Endicott Peabody II Roberts Robb, Brookline Robert T. Abbott Clare Wardaworth, Boston Berrien P. Anderson Mary Anderson, San Francisco Roger Angell Evelyn Baker, Weston Elisha Atkins Elsa Mohr, Philadelphia Charles A. Baker Alice Ann Moore, Newport, R. I. Hugh S. Harbour Maria Kidder, New York City...
...settled after emigrating from Germany. He studied astronomy at Kharkov's university, served in the Russian Army in the World War, fought on the Turkish front. He fought with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks, fled to Constantinople after the White Russian collapse. While hiding in a coal bunker he found a wad of Imperial Russian banknotes which would have made him rich a few years before but were then worthless. In Turkey, the young scientist worked for a while as a woodchopper in the Sultan's forest, was toting bricks on a construction job when a letter...