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...SNOWED IN SUMMER, by Florence Heide and Sylvia Van Clief, illustrated by Kenneth Longtemps (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). It is the hottest day of the year in New York City, too hot to do anything, so hot that Carrie puts ice cubes in her bath. But at nightfall, Jack Frost comes out of hiding, and Carrie and her doll, Loretta Cecelia, and all the other people in New York awake next morning to find everything covered with a blanket of snow. The story is unusually long, but the illustrations are captivating...
...Buffalo, N. Y., seven bandits, masked with white handkerchiefs, interrupted a dinner party long enough to obtain jewels valued at $400,000 from assembled socialites. Mrs. Philip Metz, daughter of Norman Edward Mack. New York's Democratic National Committeeman, lost $60,000 worth. Mrs. Raymond Allen Van Clief was bereft of a $200,000 pearl necklace. Frank Burkett Baird, builder of the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Canada, uncle of one of the 100 guests, offered a reward of $5,000 each for the robbers alive, $10,000 each dead. His explanation: "If authorities are forced to resort to gunfire...
...Bridgman; Williams; G. Horrax; Bowdoin: S. Edwards L. McFarland, H. L. Wiggin, S. W. Pierce, F. A. Smith, J. L. Crosby: Brown: J. W. Mayhew, F. V. Young, W. E. Marble; Columbia: J. C. MacKenzie, N. Colas, H. S. Babcock; Fordham: H. F. White; New York University: C. Van Clief, J. O. Brown; Sevens Institute: A. H. Harris, Jr., A. P. Roscoe; Swarthmore; C. A. Eberle; Syracuse: R. g. Wisner, H. Welsh; Technology: W. J. Pead, Jr., H. S. Gott, K. D. Fernstrom, R. H. Allen, L. B. Walker; Dartmouth: N. C. Hotaling, E. J. O'Leary, G. C. Lewis...
...Atalanta crew, which rows with Yale Saturday, is a remarkably light one. The men, with their weights, are as follows: Bow, H. P. Cashion, 137 lbs.; No. 2, G. K. Storm, 144 lbs.; No. 3, J. H. Charmburg, 135 lbs.; No. 4, B. Van Clief, 135 lbs.; No. 5, C. A. Lunjack, 164 lbs.; No. 6, F. Freeman, 165 lbs.; No. 7, J. Weldon, 168 lbs.; stroke, M. Quigley, 150 lbs.; cox, P. K. Coffin...
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