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The regatta, which took place last week, consisted of 11 events, medals being awarded to the winner or winners in each. The Beacon Challenge Cup was awarded in two races.
A MIRROR FOR WITCHES - Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering...
This afternoon the regatta will close with the Carroll Challenge Cup Race for single scullers, open to members of the University only. It will be rowed at 3 o'clock downstream over the mile course. Eight men are entered in the contest.
Last fortnight, there was furious activity on the Thacher campus. Boys and girls, women and William Tatem Tilden II were playing and watching tennis from seven in the morning until seven in the evening. It was an annual affair; in previous years Maurice E. ("Red Comet'') McLaughlin, William...
The reporters were absolutely bent, baffled, and bewildered. They said that Famed Conjurer Dunninger was the legitimate successor to Harry Houdini. One man who had watched the exhibition of miracles was disgusted by them. He was Charles E. Davenport, the manager of Nino Pecoraro, a medium who had issued a...