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William M. Shapiro '58 of Winthrop House and South Minneapolis, Minn., and Richard W. Iverson '57 of Lowell House and Minneapolis suffered serious injuries when a car driven by Frederick S. Hird, 3rd, '57 crashed into the on-coming autobile of Alphius O. Fulton of Arlington. Mrs. Fulton was pronounced dead on arrival at the Lowell Hospital. Her son, John, 11, was treated for superficial cuts and was released along with his uninjured father...
...Hird was cut and bruised, but later released. He returned to Cambridge last evening and was reported "feeling quite well" by a room-mate...
According to Lowell police, the students, who were returning from the Dartmouth weekend in Hanover, pulled out to pass two cars at the same time on a three-lane highway by-pass skirting the city. Hird, the driver, was unable to get back in line in time to avoid colliding with the Fulton vehicle...
Every night for the past six weeks in the London hit A Queen Came By, Actress Thora Hird had spoken these lines in fear and trembling, while a sympathetic stage manageress stood in the wings with a glass of brandy at the ready. Whenever she spoke them, said Actress Hird, the second-hand Victorian jacket she wore in the third act tightened inexplicably about her neck and invisible hands seemed to choke...
...hubbub in the loudspeaker through which Miss Harley got her spirit messages. The contact, however, spoke in Arabic, so little definite was learned. But Medium Harley said with a true spiritualist's authority, "whoever owned that jacket was strangled from behind and then drowned." With equal authority, Actress Hird commanded "that jacket is never to enter the theater again." The jacket stayed with Medium Harley, who hoped eventually to exorcise the evil spirit which had chosen to wear...