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...Thayer Drake, of Winthrop House and Chatham, N. J.; Varsity baseball, soccer, and tennis; House Committee, and Jubilee Committee...
...brilliant set piece, Romains leads him into the deafening shadows of Manhattan's Chatham Square, for an infernal glimpse of the U.S. "Middle Ages." Later, in "the hypnotic rhythm" of a Parkway drive to Jones Beach, they move on a road so magnificently designed that it makes a car "an instrument capable of making a landscape sing"; among many other cars in "an incredibly vast dance," as if some all-but-cosmic power had caught a whole race into planetary motion...
These riflemen on the porch roof of the Chatham (La.) public library were not playing. While indifferent townsmen lounged below, they were busy sniping at Blue troops in maneuvers which, beginning this week, sent 450,000 troops into battle between the Second and Third Armies. To prepare the U.S. public for such casualties as falling off roofs and crashes in tanks and planes, the U.S. Army last week announced that 136 soldiers might be expected to die during the 15-day September maneuvers (17 from disease, 119 from injuries), that as many as 40,000 more might be expected...
...Thayer Drake, 3rd, of Matthews Hall, Chatham High, and Chatham, New Jersey...
...Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...