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Other minor mishaps over Derby Day also seemed to center around Vanderbilt. Not only did another luckless in male topple down three fights of stairs Friday night, but a minor riot, involving a bonfire on Old Campus, caused Harold B. Whiteman, Assistant Dean of Freshmen, to put the whole dormitory on probation...
...Luckless Bob Bramhall, Crimson substitute forward, was the villain and also almost the hero of the frenzied denouement. Trailing by a slight margin through most of the game, Harvard spurted ahead to a 55 to 53 load with three minutes to go. During the subsequent freeze attempt, Bramhall lost the ball in a wild shot at the Yale basket, and then fouled Anderson's successful lay-up to give the Elis their one-point advantage...
...dense, subtly written and poetic novel of character with an Irish-castle setting, it fully deserved the British critical puffs that preceded it. The most overrated British novel of the year was Hope Muntz's care fully researched but woodenly written The Golden Warrior, the story of luckless King Harold and the Norman Conquest. The parade of Italian novels continued throughout the year, most of them reflecting the bitterness and weariness of Italian life. Much-touted Alberto Moravia's The Woman of Rome was a sexy, glibly written story about a young prostitute that lacked entirely the large...
...wall of Chicago Stock Exchange President James Day's office hangs a two-inch perch mounted on a tarpon-sized plank, the gift of friends lampooning a luckless fishing trip. But last week ardent Fisherman Day landed a tarpon of sorts. After three years of angling, he hooked it with representatives of the Cleveland, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchanges. They agreed to merge their exchanges into one big Midwest Stock Exchange, which will be exceeded in size only by the New York Stock Exchange and the Curb Exchange...
...luckless person who complains that "everything happens to me" may be stating a scientific fact. Many victims of crime practically ask for it: they stand in the path of the crime and "tempt" the criminal. So said a noted criminologist last week. This theory is not new to science, but it was advanced with new force by Dr. Hans von Hentig in a new book, The Criminal and His Victim (Yale University Press...