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...when it was a daily. In 1907 the Mandolin and Poetry Clubs were most popular, and the whole senior class could sit together on the steps of Agassiz. Also reported are the coed races that the girls won in '46 by "sheer brain power"--reported the Yearbook--the boys mistook the finish line. Correspondence of the Annex's second president. LeBaron Russell Briggs, shows the college's early difficulties...
...operator, soothingly: "Hold on. I'll help you." "Gee, I've found a friend," said Oscar, who once confessed that his troubles revolved around "acute anxieties, ritualistic compulsions, substitutive obsessions and irrational hostilities." He was still holding on to the telephone when cops smashed in and mistook a vial of paraldehyde (sometimes used to unpickle the living) for a vial of formaldehyde (often used to pickle the dead). After being hauled off to a first-aid hospital where his stomach was pumped out, Oscar explained: "I was just trying to be dramatic." Said June: "He was just kidding...
Right of Way. Near Peru, Ind., Charles Windoffer was arrested for drunken driving after he mistook the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks for the road to his home, forced an oncoming train to stop, then bawled out the engineer for not dimming his lights...
After the long drought, the rain had a great impact on both man and the creatures of field and stream. During a storm in Oklahoma City, a flock of wild ducks mistook a wet runway at Municipal Airport for a body of water, and some of them cracked up on landing. In the drought-disaster areas, everyone knew that one rain does not break a drought, but farmers and townsfolk alike drew a deep, fresh breath and hoped. The rain was too late to help this year's crops, but in many areas it settled the blowing topsoil, helped...
Almost every news picture of the Shah of Iran last week showed him with an olive-skinned young man, note pad in hand, whom many mistook for a member of the Shah's entourage. Actually, he was a reporter, 23-year-old A. P. Correspondent Richard Ehrman, who has been an A. P. staffer for only six months but managed to put A. P. ahead of everybody else on news of the Shah...