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Shakespeare, as well as Gibbon, Mommsen and other amateur detectives pinned the crime on Brutus; but Mr. Irwin's hero, Manlius Scribo, star reporter on "The Evening Tiber," the first experiment in tabloidia, had his own ideas about the murder. And Manny Scribo was on the spot...

Author: By G. G., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/14/1935 | See Source »

...TOMBAUGH Head of the Department of English The Manlius School Manlius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1935 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

Under Milestones, p. 34, TIME, Sept. 1, I note with sadness the passing of my school's president, General Verbeck [head of Manlius, previously called St. John's School, Manlius, N. Y.]. "Bill" as he was to us, or "The General" was a man's man, and he surely lived to fulfill the phrase "Manners Maketh Man" and the three virtues, Honor, Love and Duty with which our school shield is emblazoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Died. General William Verbeck, 69, head of Manlius Military School in Manlius, N. Y., onetime (1910-11) national commander of the Boy Scouts of America, onetime Adjutant-General of New York, son of the late Dr. Guido Fridolin Verbeck who founded the Kyushu Imperial University at Fukuoka, Japan; suddenly, at his home in Manlius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 1, 1930 | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...doctor spoke sincerely. Mr. Edwards at that time had hollow flanks. The thinness of his arms was hardly compensated for by the unhappy protuberance of his abdomen. A course at the Manlius Military School, however, so far improved him that he weighed 217 pounds before he went away to school at Lawrenceville. He became the idol of his fellows. Second formers stuffed pillows under their coats in order to resemble him. He was bulky then, but hard, and quick afoot. He entered Princeton at 268. In his junior year (1898) he became the Princeton captain, and his fame boomed like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tsar | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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