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Emma Moretzsohn, a 6’7 post player from Downington, Pennsylvania, boasts strong post moves, outstanding size, and a soft touch that makes her a powerful offensive force...

Author: By Julie R.S. Fogarty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD BASKETBALL 2005-06: Rookies Bring Size, Skill to Revamped Rotation | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...Glee Club has chosen Noel J. Tyl '58, of Dunster House and Downington, Pa., as manager for 1957. Arthur McC. Fitts '59, of Leverett House and Framingham, Mass., is the new assistant manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elections | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I's slick slacker, lashed himself into an offensive fury. The butler on his Downington (Pa.) estate told police all about it: when he demanded $150 in back pay, fat, 52-year-old Bergdoll gave him a quick sock in the head, then grabbed a shotgun. "I'll shoot you down like a dog," said Bergdoll. Wife Berta Bergdoll stepped in, ruled out a shooting war, let it go to law. The butler's charge: assault & battery and pointing of firearms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Wonders | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...Near Downington, Pa., in the Indian Run farmhouse of Henry Huddleston Rogers III, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil, servants heard a shot one evening, ran upstairs to Mr. Rogers' bedroom. Lying on the floor with a bullet hole in her temple, a pearl-handled revolver at her feet, was Evelyn Hoey, honey-blonde torchsinger (Fifty Million Frenchmen). When police arrived they found Actress Hoey dead, Host Rogers stumbling drunkenly about the front lawn muttering about his "sweetheart." Told that Rogers & Hoey had spent the day in alcoholic bickering, police clapped Host Rogers and a male house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 23, 1935 | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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