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Richard T. Cassidy '35, of Marblehead--Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $75, open to undergraduates for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, entitled "Antonie Hurtado de Mendoza: his Life and Works...
...making a clean sweep of the quartet of races that closed the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association championship last week. Harvard won a second leg on the MacMillan Cup. Dwight Fullerton, of the Beverly Yacht Club and Dedham, Mass., took two of the races; F. Stanton Deland '36 of Marblehead and Boston, and Michael Cudahy of Beverly and Chicago, captured one each...
...Baltimore, reporters discovered a grocery store proprietor named David Dusell who had won $3,400 and explained why he was not surprised at his good fortune: "Two years ago I won $5,700 at Bowie on a parlay ticket and in 1905 I won the same amount." In Marblehead, Mass. William H. Sweet, 61-year-old fisherman who had won $50,000, and looks like Calvin Coolidge, said he did not know what he would do with the money. Asked by a photographer to smile, Fisherman Sweet snarled: "Well, you'll have to wait a minute...
That students from Chicago are acquiring new virtues in Cambridge, is well shown by the tale of the two young Harvard graduates from that great town who found themselves down to their last traveller's checque in Marblehead last summer. Walking along the less yachty reaches of the waterfront reaches despair they saw some fishermen unloading quintals of fresh cod from a smack, offering them at a very low price...
...haste toward Chicago. For a whole day they sped towards the Mid-Western metropolis with their fish. In a small hamlet near Erle, Pa., they stopped and put in a long-distance call to several of the largest Chicago hotels, clubs, and restaurants, telling each, "We are just leaving Marblehead, Massachusetts, with a truckload of fresh haddock, which we guarantee to have in Chicago in ten hours, by plane, train, and truck relays. Our prices are only a few cents over the Chicago market price. May we offer, etc....". By the next morning they had driven to Chicago, and sold...