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John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, said that a onetime rumrunner had come to him on March 9 as go-between for the Lindbergh baby-snatchers. Mr. Curtis spent two fruitless days trying to get in touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know...
...Dudley's affianced, Christine. If she does win, however, she loses her beloved Robert and is doomed to a career abroad, dogged by her relentless mother. Dudley cavorts in the midst of all this in a galaxy of slamming doors, back slappings, protest meetings, silver cup awards, and fruitless "touches" for amounts varying from five dollars to five thousand...
...Holland '33 was high scorer of the game, netting four field goals for Harvard, while Lawry, McCamant, and Ochsenhirt let the Pittsburgh attackers. The home team took the offensive during most of the game, but poor shooting nullified the effects of successful passing, making most of the Crimson sallies fruitless...
...Ralph Keller colorless, small-scale compared to the vivid colonel. Editor Keller is already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel. Col. Mann had the temerity to sue the late Publisher Peter F. Collier and Editor Norman Hapgood of Collier's for libel. As a result of that fruitless sortie, the colonel was prosecuted on a charge of perjury for his barefaced denial that the "O. K., W. D. M." at the bottom of a document was his signature. Famed Lawyer Martin Wiley Littleton won an acquittal by rehearsing for a spellbound jury the story of the publisher...
...same time, sympathy cannot be withheld for the long and fruitless efforts of the faculty of the school. They were handicapped by the University's refusal to grant credit for work done in the Drama school, as seriously as by their financial difficulties. The fact that students in the school also had to carry their full schedule of college courses made it impracticable for many to join who would otherwise have done so. So long as such conditions obtain, it is doubtful if a flourishing dramatic school can be established at Harvard...