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There were two hangings at Pentonville Prison last week, but the Pentonville bell did not toll, the chief warden did not hoist a black flag to the prison masthead. Just curt sheriff's and coroner's notes pinned on the prison door told of the death by hanging of Jose Waldberg, 25, and Karl Heinrich Meier, 24. Their only distinction: being the first enemy spies to be executed in Great Britain during...
...Concert Master": Two Symphonies by Haydn 8:30 "The Man You Want to Meet": Interview 9:00 "South of the Border": Music of the Americas 9:30 "Crimson Capers": Harvard Talent Show from minutes to music-makers 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall": Vaughan Williams Symphony in F Hoist St. Paul's Suite Hoist The Planets 10:45 Crimson News and interview
...Navy for patrol service was the 267-ft. Hi-Esmaro, palatial $1,250,000 yacht of ailing Asbestos Tycoon Hiram Edward Manville; and for $140,000 the 206-ft Diesel yacht Lotosland, million-dollar pleasure craft of National City Banker Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds. Lotosland's seaplane hoist may prove useful, her pipe organ...
...additions hoist the Varsity total to 30 players with six more to be added by game-time Saturday. They include George Haydock and Jack Morgan, ends; Tom O'Loughlin, tackle; Jim Aldrich, guard; Ted Lyman, center; and Dave Goldthwaite, and Red Townsend, blocking backs...
Richelieu was one of the most cunning, adroit, far-seeing and resourceful minds in political history. First test of any great politician is to hoist himself into position where he can control the steering wheel of state at the decisive moments. Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent in getting behind the wheel. He got there first by attaching himself to the fat, sly, greedy, frightened Florentine, Marie de Medici, widow of Henri IV. She reigned for her 15-year-old son, Louis XIII, whom she used to spank publicly to the delight of the tittering court...