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When he meets young Christoph Kroysing, Berlin's self-pity vanishes. Kroysing had discovered some fellow-non-coms were selling army rations instead of distributing them to their hungry men; he had been so foolish as to write an influential uncle about it. Of course his letter was stopped by the censor, and he was threatened with court martial. Kroysing would have welcomed the chance to testify, but the court martial was indefinitely postponed, and he was transferred to a dangerous advanced post, kept there on the supposition that sooner or later he would be killed. Day after...
...Widener there are 600 volumes of newspapers printed in America before 1810. Half of these were collected by Professor Christoph Daniel Ebeling, of Hamburg, Germany. On his death in 1817 the collection was bought by Israel Thorndike, a Boston merchant, and presented to Harvard the next year...
Left. By Edwin M. Rine, onetime vice president and general manager of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R., to Rosa Christoph, maid for the last seven years in the Rine household: the income of a $100,000 trust fund. The income of a $150,000 fund, left to Mrs. Rine, will also go to Maid Christoph, 25, if Mrs. Rine should die first. Explained the widow: "She was more than a maid...
When Marie Antoinette was the Dauphine of France she took one of her rare determined stands on behalf of Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck had been her singing master in Vienna and when he wanted to produce a new opera in Paris she saw that he had his way. Last week, when it was 163 years old, Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide was given its U.S. première by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia...
...following men comprise the University squad: Pitchers: S. L. Albert '34, Philip Boyer, Jr. '33, T. A. Bridges '33, P. J. Christoph '34, P. deB. deGive '34, Charles Devens '32, R. H. Gallagher '34, P. E. Gorman '32, H. M. Lawn '34, W. A. McGivney '33, J. F. McJennett '33, W. J. McTigue '33, R. A. Maish, Jr. '33, Edmund Model '33, F. G. Osborne '34, F. H. Poor '34, E. W. Sprague '32, J. Van R. Strong '34, H. W. Taylor '33, Phineas Tobe '33, R. D. Tucker '34, E. J. Vogel '32, F. O. White...