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...activities of the confidence man first came to light when banks on Harvard Square complained when payment was stopped on a number of checks drawn to the order of a "Peter Geer." Presumably the drafts were stopped after students were told by their tailers that the "imported goods" were fraudulent and many times over-priced...
Colwell Charles R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, said that all cases of the fraud were reported by students, for the most part in the Law School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...
...photograph was secured when a suspicious student secretly snapped "Geer"? with a miniature camera on one of the con-man's visits to his room. Colonel Apted declared that Peter Geer was an alias, and that he recognized the man from the picture as the notorious brother of another "salesman" who was jailed several years...
Down at New Haven Head Coach Ed Leader sent his Blue oarsmen to the harbor from the tanks in the Payne Whitney gymnasium about two weeks before the Crimson moved out to the Charles. He has an exceptionally large, promising group, including such veterans as Charley Adsit, Frank Geer, Howard Johnson, and Paul Wick. For several weeks he had available for tank rowing 22 eights...
...novel by Erskine Caldwell; produced by Sam Byrd). The last novel by Erskine Caldwell to be cured for the stage was Tobacco Road, now in its fifth year. His Journeyman, even though he helped direct it, will become no such theatrical Oldest Inhabitant. The story of Semon Dye (Will Geer), a rambunctious, fleshly mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage bellowing who he is?a helpful move for latecomers...