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...weather made front-page news last week. A violent storm in Maine washed away seedlings and demolished fruit trees. A deluge after long rains ruined much cotton around Augusta. Ga. A snowstorm whipped the Idaho highlands. A severe frost struck the district around Lancaster, Ohio. A hail storm near Marathon, Tex. pelted to death 1,000 sheep...
Many thousand Harvard men have grown to love him so that he may be compared only to the ever-present "Copey" in their minds. That ready smile and constant cheerfulness have made him popular with everyone. Yet those men see more in his attitude than that of the hail fellow well met. They recognize the great knowledge of music which has made his arrangements and compositions used by the leading choral organizations the world over. Still more they recognize the sincerity which has gained for him the confidence of so many friends. It was that sincerity that convinced President Lowell...
Thus in four short months John Dillinger had become a famed desperado, a bad man no jail could hold and police everywhere were hunting him. In November they caught him coming out of a doctor's office in Chicago but he drove away through a hail of bullets. He began raiding small-town police stations in Indiana for arms and bullet-proof vests while his bank robberies multiplied. Then with his plunder he dropped out of sight until last January when officers arrested him and three of his gang, quietly vacationing in Tucson, Ariz. (TIME, Feb. 5). Chapter...
Tall, ruddy, good-humored Professor Ames started out to be a lawyer, turned to art, ended up on Dartmouth's faculty 15 years ago. Last week the Press was ready to hail him as a new Hero of Science. But Professor Ames resisted any such public acclamation. In the first place, he insisted, other members of his Dartmouth staff deserved as much credit as he. And, ''It was research and that's all about...
Original "I fought in the War as a soldier in the ranks. I know what war means. Terrible memories of those years when whole generations of youth of so many countries were laid low by the hail of lead have not been cancelled from my mind...