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Ruel R. Robins, Jr., of 1916 Laurel St., Texarkana, Arkansas, a graduate of Arkansas Senior High School...
Another post-season laurel fell Saul Mariaschin's way Tuesday as a group of local sportswriters placed him on their All-New England basketball team. Co-starring roles on the sectional honor roll went to arch-rival Tony Lavelli of Yale and three of Holy Cross's NCAA Tournament champions: Ken Haggerty, George Kaftan, and Joe Mullaney...
James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, ex-U.S. Congressman, possessor of the Order of St. Sophia (Serbia), the Medal of Gratitude (France), and the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), let it out that he had added yet another spray of laurel to his fillet. Dartmouth College and Dean Academy prep school, said the Mayor (still at large pending his appeal from a mail-fraud conviction), had asked him for recordings of his speeches, for the instruction of students in oratory...
...even though the office is not permanently pulling up states, it seems a fitting time now to bestow a laurel or two on this group for fourteen months of a job well done. Since January of last year, well over three thousand assorted housing problems have been solved in one way or another; and the greatest crisis of all was successfully passed last September when a small army of veterans and their dependents moved en mass upon Cambridge. Moving with singular rapidity, the University promptly filled in the imminent breach by reconverting a deserted army camp and a hotel...
...laurel crown has long been recognized as the traditional symbol of immortality-therefore, by this token, and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Council of Regents ... I do herewith pronounce Carrie Jacobs-Bond an immortal of the Memorial Court of Honor." He placed the crown on the bier...