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...Clarence C. Pell: the national racquets championship for the third time in a row, the 12th time since 1915; 15-8, 18-14, 6-15, 15-6, against young Huntingdon D. ("Ting") Sheldon in the final; with Stanley G. Mortimer, four times champion and perennial runner-up, refereeing the match; on the only court in Manhattan, at the Racquet & Tennis Club...
When the eight-mile-long parade started over the mountains to Harrisburg next morning it was accompanied by a car full of medical supplies donated by the people of Huntingdon. Nobody paid and nobody tried to collect the 10¢ toll at the Clarks Ferry bridge (over the Susquehanna River). From time to time wheezy motors gave out. Once the bread trucks were hours behind time, but somehow they kept on going. Troopers patrolling the march discreetly looked the other way when they saw a 1931 automobile license in the line. Governor Pinchot had ordered the stringent State law relaxed...
...bomb that killed Clerks Werkheiser and House had been addressed to "J. Everhardt, Huntingdon, Pa." Mr. Everhardt is an official of a reformatory. Another was addressed: "Natap Mariane, Argentine Vice Consul, Argentine Consulate, Baltimore, Va. [sic]." The other four addressees formed a more homogeneous group...
Ambitious little Deems Taylor, composer of The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson, received last week an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from ambitious little Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. at its 55th anniversary celebration. Graduate of New York University (1906), and an able writer of light verse, Composer Taylor told the students: "All of an individual's life depends upon the answer to one question. ... Do you want to make a dollar? There are two answers...
Fortnight ago Willard Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief of New York City detectives for his failure to solve the Rothstein murder. Quickly tracking nebulous clues, Detective Coughlin caught the driver of the murder car within three days, closed in on the actual murderers. Readers of Van Dine books (The Bishop Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case), are still...