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...latest award made by the Touchdown Club-with turn-of-the-century photographs, cartoons and illustrations by such artists as the late great Arthur B. Frost and Frederic Remington. Among its outstanding illustrations : Artist Frost's sketch of the Yale-Princeton game (see cut) played in Hoboken on Thanksgiving Day 1879-memorable because 1) it resulted in a scoreless tie; 2) Yale's Captain Walter Camp flabbergasted the referee by asking permission to put in a substitute, though no player had been injured; 3) the cane-carrying referee, who had to arbitrate a free-for-all as well...
There are only four makers of military optical instruments in the U. S. One is Kollmorgen (of Brooklyn), which concentrates on periscopes. Another is Keuffel & Esser (of Hoboken, N. J.), which makes range finders, trench periscopes. A third is Spencer-Lens Co., scientific instrument subsidiary of American Optical Co. The fourth is Bausch & Lomb (of Rochester, N. Y.), which makes binoculars, range finders, periscopes, about 50% of all the military optical goods sold...
...said Miss Duncan, she and a man named Douglas Miller were lunching together (Miss Duncan was traveling with her aunt) aboard the Norwegian freighter Ronda, standing up through the North Sea en route from Antwerp to Hoboken. Suddenly the ship "shuddered awfully." Glass tinkled, Miss Duncan remembered, and vases broke...
...days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...
...smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last week the throne went on view, along with some 40 other objects, in Manhattan's Arden Gallery...