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Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau, age 61, the sturdy, solid, cheerful Queen of The Netherlands, has been living a quiet and well-regulated life with her daughter and grandchildren on a rented estate at Lee, Mass. There she has impressed the natives with her neighborliness. Once she climbed through a wire fence to greet a neighbor who was haying...
Princeton officials have announced that two of Nassau's football games will be played at the Yankee Stadium, New York, instead of Palmer Stadium, Princeton, as originally scheduled. The cause for the change, it was announced, is the growing gasoline and rubber rationing. The two games thus affected are the Army game on November 26, and the Navy tilt for October...
...places on the first team-eight players and two pitchers-the champion Tigers were awarded three, Pennsylvania won two and the other five teams, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale, each received one. The Nassau nine was likewise given three places on the second team, followed by Harvard with...
What had happened was that some 2,500 Bahamian natives had rioted down Nassau's swank Bay Street, smashing shop windows, helping themselves to expensive liquors, French perfumes, fine English fabrics. Said one excited spectator: "It was just like Pearl Harbor-it came so suddenly." Panicky merchants lowered their hurricane shutters and the British garrison police bore down on the mob. There was wild street fighting. Three of the rioters were killed, 40 arrested. The mob gradually retreated, with its stolen liquor, to native Grant's Town. But peace was not restored until the Duke returned and promised...
...made public, promised an investigation of their applications, reminded them that they were liable to $10,000 fine and ten years in jail if they had represented their status falsely. They might even lose their cards. Suddenly remorseful, many a citizen hastened to return his high-rating card. In Nassau County, N.Y., citizens who thought it over coughed up 500 X cards. Motorcycle patrolmen stopped drivers, examined their cards. X and B card holders had to explain where they were going and why. Holders of A cards were not bothered...