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Eager for a fray and not too concerned with the petty details of organization, the instigators phoned all their friends, informing them that there would be a demonstration on the steps of Widener at 10 o'clock...
...gentlemen would want to finish up by stealing the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus, police had it swiftly boarded up and a hollow square of burly Bobbies easily withstood charge after tipsy Oxonian charge. Old Oxonian A. P. Herbert, famed Punch funster and Member of Parliament, attended the fray for hours, ready according to his wisecracks to testify as an M. P. in behalf of any student who might be arrested. Legislator Herbert kept calling to the police: "We are making no trouble...
With the second lineup starting the game, Harvard immediately went into the lead on baskets by Lupe Lupien and Fred Heckel. After six minutes of play, the first team entered the fray with the score in favor of Harvard 8-6. They soon boosted it to 20-8 at the half...
...while Daugherty was away on a trip, Ochsner sold the claims, which eventually wound up with General Petroleum. Of course, Ochsner retained the royalty rights. These were shuttled around in various private holding companies with assistance of various parties, most of 'whom also subsequently jumped into the legal fray. Daugherty started his particular lawsuits in 1924, dragging them on with no success for ten years until he suddenly established, on the basis of his original verbal agreement, his partnership rights. If that victory was upheld on appeal, which will be heard this week, Daugherty would get the entire kitty...
...part in the voting. Of those, eight cast their ballots for the last time. They are Captain Gaffney, Bob Jones, Charley Kessler, and Mike Adlis, who were Yale game starters, and George Ford, Mal McTernen, George Hedblom, and Bill Watt, who also took a large part in the Eli fray...