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Henry slides down the banister, with a fat little boy behind him to hit the newel post first...
...lurking thieves walked silently up into the dim-lit gallery. Swiftly & neatly they unhung ten famed paintings, turned them over, knifed out the wooden panels from the back, removed the canvases on their stretchers. They unrolled a 70-ft. length of heavy sash rope, tied one end to a newel post on the fourth floor landing, dropped the other out a window. There was no moon...
...Descalvados, their base camp, with a chartered Sikorsky amphibian last week. They will use the plane to scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...
...Postgraduate," he went back into Yale's rush-line and for that season became the darling of every Yale football enthusiast. With Rusher Heffelfinger at left of centre and Rusher Stanford Newel Morison (also of Minneapolis) at right of centre, that Yale team plowed a wide furrow through its adversaries from which grew a harvest of lasting football fame. Rushers Heffelfinger and Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson...
...Newell crews are developing rapidly, and will in all probability make a good showing in the races against the Weld. At present, the Newel 1901 crew is rowing in the best form. The men are well together, and get their blades in well, but they ease off at the finish. The boat is a trifle dead, but is improving in this respect every day. The order is as follows: Stroke, Gerrish; 7, J. Lawrence; 6, McConnell; 5, Henderson; 4, Brigham; 3, Swaim; 2, Cunningham; bow, Hawkins...