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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas City, Mo.. Charles M. Hofman and his wife called upon Mr. and Mrs. John G. Bennett, played argumentative bridge. Toward the end of the game Mr. Bennett bid a spade, Mrs. Bennett raised him to four spades, showed a "rather good hand." When he failed to make the bid. Mrs. Bennett called her husband a "bum bridge player," whereupon he leaned across the table, slapped her face. She excused herself from the room, rummaged in a trunk for a revolver, returned and shot him dead...
Last summer at Camp Morgan (Y. M. C. A.), near Washington, N. H., the old sanitation unit suddenly became a menacing plague spot. Some 100 boys at the camp were threatened with infection. What was to be done? An ingenious, tinkering counsellor, one Gordon Russell Whittum of Worcester, Mass., hurriedly destroyed the old unit, upon a concrete base built a clean, self-sanitizing latrine...
...candidates for Lynn's mayoralty had filed their papers, normal newspapers reported that the candidates numbered six. But the Enwright Telegram-News headlined: "Five Seeking Bauer's* Seat." This was neither a scoop for the Telegram-News nor an omission of ignorance. The omitted candidate was Lynn M. Ranger, president of the Lynn City Council. In 1927, when Mayor Curley jailed him, Publisher Enwright received a letter from Mr. Ranger alleging an Enwright "plot to defeat decent government." Result: Mr. Ranger's name is never printed in Mr. Enwright's newspaper...
Professor Hubbard, a graduate of Harvard College in 1897, received his A.M. in 1900, and his S.B. in Landscape Architecture in 1901. In the year 1897-98 he was a student at M. I. T., and in 1906 he became instructor in Landscape Architecture. From 1910 to 1921 he was an assistant professor; since 1921 he has been professor...
...Broadbent '32 and D. M. Frame '32 were the individual stars of the contest, the former scoring three, and the latter two of the victors' points. Cullen was stellar light for Bridge-water, making one of his team's two tallies. The other was scored on a mis-kick by a Harvard player...