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...mild, soft-spoken man with a wisp of a smile poking out from beneath his usually serious manner, Mr. McNiff manifests his seldom-called-on Gaelic wrath when he sees the handiwork of the margin marker or the page puller. He is quick to point out that such abuses are the work of the determined minority, for "most of the boys are good lads." While needless rule infractions set poorly with him, he takes no stock in rules for their own sake. Instead, service for everyone is the watchword. Thus books have gone out for more than twelve hours whenever...
Further scoring in the first half came a few minutes later, when Eliot's guard Dick Coe decided to do a little sprinting--50 yards worth--down to the Lowell five. Two plays later Fred Ecker crossed right tackle on a reverse, and scampered across the end marker to bring the half-time and final score to 13 for the Elephants...
People followed him over hills and trails on his "historical walks," listened to his authoritative reports of early battles and settlements. He became top adviser to the local historical societies. He led a WPA expedition to look for lead marker plates, buried by the French in 1751 as claim to the land, and found two, just where he said they would be. The Greene County Historical Society thereupon appropriated $20,000 and worked nine years to put the Horn diaries and papers into a three-volume...
...which was universally used in their day. Horn's maps and court dockets bore a 19th Century watermark and were written with a metal pen and in blue-black ink, unknown until 1836. The documents had been "aged," said the committee, probably with ammonia. As for the lead marker plates, the expedition's director admitted that Horn had found them himself, when the director was away. They, too, were fakes: metallurgists said the 18th Century French could not have used that type of lead...
...Varsity's second play from scrimmage, Coach Dick Harlow ordered on off-tackle slant, with Captain Vince Maravee carrying the mail. Vince dashed 51 yards to the Green and Gold's 26 yard marker before being pulled down from behind. Two plays later the Crimson scored...