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Early one morning last week in the gashouse district on Manhattan's lower East Side, a neat, grey-haired watchman named George Preston, 47, was caught setting fire to a rubbish heap under the stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared...
...growl at his master. Policeman Conroy drew his revolver, waved it admonishingly. The big police dog did what his master had taught him always to do when he saw an armed man. He catapulted with all four feet against the policeman's chest and belly. Down in a heap went man and dog. Bang went the gun, putting a bullet through Patrick Conroy's heart...
Unlucky Freshmen, annually dumped on the ash-heap of circumstances by the House Plan's inability to accomodate all those applying for admission, find a cold eye turned on them when, as Sophomores, they again seek entrance. While the House Representatives express concern for the solitary, doghouse existence of men excluded from the houses, their hands are tied by an undue reverence for the Freshman and the custom of having a third of each class in any one house. But if this pretense is to be dropped and justice administered, upperclassmen in good standing who have tried repeatedly should...
...period of six months we will not bargain with or enter into agreements with any other union or representative of employed" without gaining the U.A.W.A.'s sanction. Simply put, the union will have, for six months, free rein in its membership drives, will be on top of the labor heap. Thus this minority labor group got a very real concession...
...South Bend, in its last game against a Notre Dame team whose mistakes were all behind it, Northwestern last week made all the mistakes it had saved up through an unbeaten season. Heap, hero against Wisconsin, fumbled twice. Toth, titan against Minnesota, failing to get off a punt, was tackled deep in his own territory. Capitalizing blunders like these, punching holes in Northwestern's tired line, Notre Dame put over one touchdown in each quarter, wrecked Northwestern's hopes of a national championship...