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...midst of this curious controversy, from the peace of his porticoed yellow mansion "Avalon" in Princeton's Bayard Lane, emerged 79-year-old Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the community's resident Grand Old Man, minister, Wartime Navy chaplain, litterateur (Fisherman's Luck, The Man Behind the Book). He came not to comment on the alleged "smoothie complex" but he had heard that the town council was thinking of routing intercity busses down his and other residential streets. He came to protest. He appealed for the preservation of "the beauty, tranquillity and safety of Princeton, the most beautiful...
This year, however, Dr. Fisher, who is known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman," believes that such perturbation will be less, and that, if the weather is favorable, it may be possible to photograph the shower. As the stream of meteers is so rich that it takes several years to pass by the earth, astronomers have been on the watch for it since 1929. If, on any one of the following nights, a brilliant display is noted, then Dr. Fisher declares that the main part of the shower will be over, and only faint signs of it will be seen next...
...were bound. He had cried out: "They're putting me overboard!" The fact that his hands and feet were bound started police searching for a second victim. Mrs. Collings had said the two killers told her husband they had a wounded man with them. N. L. Noteman, the fisherman who found Barbara Collings on the drifting boat, had reported seeing a swimmer sink near the Penguin. When it became apparent that Mrs. Collings had been subjected to an abnormal attack before being left in the launch her attorney advanced the theory that the murder was committed by a lunatic...
...Then came Bonfils wading in the pool and as the trusting Elmer, thinking him a friend, rubbed his scaly sides against the boots of the fisherman, purring happily, he was seized roughly by the gills and thrown ashore...
After dawn, a fisherman off Cove Neck heard a woman calling for help from a small boat anchored offshore. He rowed to the boat, found it was the Bo Peep, onetime tender of the yacht Resolute, now the launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck. The woman in it was young, dark, comely. She said she was Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, 28, wife of Benjamin P. Collings, an inventor of small appliances who four years before, at 34, had stopped work to live on a modest income. With his wife and daughter Barbara he spent the summers aboard...