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Inter-fraternity basketball will get under way tomorrow when Delta Upsilon meets Sigma Alpha Mu, the Falcon Club plays St. Paul's Catholic Club, and Lamba Chi Alpha engages Zeta Beta Tau. Handball starts Friday evening at Hemenway when Alpha Mu Sigma plays Kappa Nu and Sigma Alpha Nu meets St. Paul's Catholic Club...
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...Mediterranean island of Malta, first colonized by Phoenicians, was given by Emperor Charles V to the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem on condition that the Knights of St. John would acknowledge Spanish suzerainty by sending him, annually, a falcon. The Knights of St. John, afterward called the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta, repulsed 38,500 invading Mohammedans at the siege of Malta in 1565. Later they admitted members of the European nobility into their order. Last week the Knights of Malta, still flourishing, gathered in Rome to elect a Grand Master...
When Victor Nave, window washer, crawled out to do a tenth-story window of San Francisco's Rochester building one day last week, he found a falcon's nest on an upper ledge. A thorough cleaning nan, he swept it away. Down plunged sticks, straw and some squeaking nestlings. Down, too, with beak and talons at Victor Nave's face plunged the mother hawk, her mate hovering near with angry cries. Victor Nave, his face streaming blood, clung to the window ledge as the birds dashed at him again & again. At last he loosed his hold, steadied...