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...Dirk von Punessen, 24, son of Holland's Baron Henri von Duesseldorf Punessen, titled "King Scout" six years ago when he organized the Boy Scout troops of Europe, attended a Scout meeting in Milwaukee. Attempting to force a bullet into a pistol, he braced the muzzle against his stomach and pushed the cartridge base against a projection on the wall. The cartridge exploded, critically wounding King Scout Punessen...
...graduate lineup, with the former colleges of the players: g., W. K. Alsop, Jr., 2L, Haverford; r.f.b., Howard Johnson 1G.B., Swarthmore; W. R. Blair 1L, Haverford; r.h.b., Louis Kurness '29; l.h.b., A. M. Ogle '33, Switzerland transfer; c.h.b., R. T. Green 3L, Amherst; r.o.f., Dirk Bodde '30; r.i.f., N. R. Danielian '28, Freshman coach; c.f., D. G. Baker 2G, Junior University coach; l.i.f., W. W. Wickersham 1G, Haverford; l.o.f., B. B. Warfield 3L, Haverford...
...Dirk Diephuis, pastor of the Swedenborgian Church, sends us a clipping from an Amsterdam newspaper, which he translates. It is interesting reading...
Harvard's two goals came as the result of a kick in the first period by D. M. Frame '32, assisted by Dirk Bodde '30, and a long, hard kick by H. H. Broadbent '32, in the fourth stanza. Three of Amherst's scores were made when the ball bounced from Harvard players into the Crimson's won net. The Amherst team, however, outplayed Harvard and put the Crimson on the defense for most of the game...
...fact that he was eleven years at sea with the Royal Navy, and once commanded H. M. S. Meiampus, wears his trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword. As British midshipmen still do, he always car ried when on duty a bright brass telescope, which, uncollapsed, was three-quarters as tall as himself...