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Attacked from behind and knocked down on the steps of the City Hall by a discharged WPAster suffering from delusions of persecution, New York's scrappy little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed his assailant's legs, got them in a scissors hold before police came to the rescue. The...
Sergeant Charles E. Donelon, who is credited with personally knocking down eight students, took the Bursar's cards of four in the course of the fracas. Donelon later announced that he would demand the surrender of the men from Dean Hanford this morning.
An important part of Harvard's football destiny will be in the making in the New Hampshire hills tomorrow afternoon when the Yardling football team travels to Exeter to open its season, and if the results of the fracas are encouraging, it bodes well for future Varsity elevens.
The Dunster-Dudley fracas was featured by the tight pitching of John Woodward, former Yardling moundsman, who shut out the Commuters until the last inning. Dean Noyes, Bill Lipsitt, and Woodward were most efficient with the wagon-tongue for the Funsters.
Fracas began when Ambassador Suvich was quoted in an interview as saying that modern Italy is a "high speed democracy." As first speaker on the Coliseum program, Editor Harrison impolitely undertook to correct him. Said he: "For the past 16 years Mussolini has operated a supreme dictatorship with a cabinet...