Word: eastons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) observed its 100th commencement. For the first time, the graduating class breakfasted in a body with President & Mrs. William Mather Lewis, hoped to make it an annual custom. Last month Lafayette had extensive centennial celebrations. Of 6,000 living alumni, some 1,600 (over 25%) were present, which was reckoned a record for any college. Proud also is Lafayette of The Biography of a College,* recently published, a compendious but lively account of its growth by Secretary of the Board of Trustees David B. Skillman...
...Easton...
Clerks in post offices are used to foreign-looking individuals who address packages queerly and argue over the amounts necessary for postage and insurance. What made Clerk Edward Werkheiser, 28, suspicious of two Italianate men in dark overcoats and soft hats who came into the Easton. Pa. post office one morning last week was the shape and weight of the six packages they shoved through the window. The packages seemed identical. Each was about 10 in. long, 5 in. wide, 5 in. deep. Each weighed 6 Ib. Yet the senders, in arguing about the packages' value, insisted each contained something...
...recalled that the Italian consulate in Pittsburgh was bombed two months ago, that twelve Italian stores in Philadelphia were bombed in the past two months. The packages' return address in Dover, N. J. proved, of course, fictitious. Detectives sought three men in a small coupe seen near Easton, arrested two suspects...
...five unexploded bombs were removed, at the end of a long pole, to a quarry near Easton. Charles V. Weaver, an explosive expert from the du Pont works in Wilmington, undertook the risky business of opening them to see what they were made of. With a knife at the end of a pole he undid one package, set to work on another, putting a stone on the top while he cut away