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...found a doctor who thought they might be completely cured. Said Katherine Schaub: "Do you think getting married will help me? . . . I don't buy anything. . . . I haven't any money. . . . I'm-worried. . . . When I die I'll only have lilies on my coffin, not roses as I'd like. . . . If I won my $250,000, mightn't I have lots of roses...
...time or near it, deserve special mention because they rank among the great athletic teams of all times. The 1901 Varsity took advantage of unusually favorable water conditions at Poughkeepsie to establish a world's record of 18 minutes 53½ seconds for 4 miles. Bert Coffin's 1903 boat load of giants while interfered with in the first two miles of the race on the same course were only a few seconds behind this record, 18-57-1/5. They rowed the last two miles eleven seconds faster than the first two miles. Quite unusual I think...
Howard Earle Coffin, Earle Reynolds and Col. Paul Henderson, onetime assistant Postmaster General (1922-25), representing National Air Transport...
...summary: YALE 1931 HARVARD 1931 Draper, Farrell, g. g., Dunn Rust, Hall, pt. pt., Henderson Fields, Henderson, c.pt. c.pt., Robinson Scott, Maurer, 1d. 1d., Reisman Dryfoos, Woodward, 2d. 2d., MacGowan, Hyman Mallory, Coffin, 3d. 3d., Farrell Smith, Cowles, c. c., Hobbs Foucke, Baker, 3a. 3a., Foshay Woodhull, 2a. 2a., Bissell, Ritter Stevens, 1a. 1a., Pope, Marshall Gaston, Caion, o.h., Gulick Burrall, i.h. i.h., Johnson...
...Little Italy. Fortnight ago, "Diamond Joe" stood on a corner, five doors from his home, when an automobile drove up to the curb. There was a rat-tat-tat and the automobile drove away, leaving 58 slugs in the body of "Diamond Joe." He had a fine funeral. His coffin cost $5,000. Senator Deneen came from Washington to walk in the rain in a procession that stretched for a mile and a half...