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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Philadelphia judge & jury last week awarded the electric chair to Herman Petrillo, 40, spaghetti salesman and "brains" of a murder-for-insurance syndicate alleged to have done away with four victims of arsenic poisoning on whose lives they had insurance (TIME, Feb. 13). After hearing the verdict, Herman Petrillo...
The visitors saw a 9 by 9 by 16 in. leaden casket, graven with abbreviations unmistakably referring to "Cristoval Colon, Almirante" (see cut). Inside it when last opened were once-human bone & dust, a bullet presumably fired into Columbus during some fracas before he sailed for the New World.
Opposing the batmen during the nine-day recess will be teams from the Naval Training Station. North Carolina, Duke, Georgetown, and finally Navy.
Two teams of Harvard debaters will make trips during the spring recess, the Debating Council announced yesterday, one to Missouri and the other through the Middle Eastern states.
During the last week the Cambridge stationery stores were flooded with a letterhead very much resembling the Harvard seal. The catch was that the word "Academiae" was omitted from the inscription. But actually the omission of the word made the offense even worse, because it comes under the head of...