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...conventional histories the life of Michel Ney, cooper's son whose brilliance and bravery in the service of Napoleon raised him to be Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskowa and Marshal of France, ends before the guns of a firing squad in Luxembourg Gardens on Dec. 7, 1815. Called by Napoleon "the bravest of the brave," the hero of Elchingen, Friedland, Redinha, Borodino and the retreat from Moscow had sworn allegiance to Bourbon Louis XVIII on the Empire's fall, set out to bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage when he returned from Elba, joined...
...best translation of a specified passage in Greek or Latin was won by Edward Lewis Bassett '36 of Marblehead for his translation into Attic Greek of a passage in C. H. Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greek." Honorable mention went to John Joseph Ney '35 of Dorchester...
...Rags is Max Kalik, fiftyish, a suave, affluent bookmaker noted for his $200 suits, his good manners and his sporty English cashier, Sidney ("Sir Sid-ney") Gooch, who wears loud tweeds and speaks with a Cockney accent. A onetime Manhattan ragman, "Kid Rags" operates the biggest book at the smartest U. S. track, Belmont Park, finds most of his trade in Wall Street, specializes in bets from...
...Robert B. Cutler '35, Eliot B. Dalton '36, Cyrus C. Decoster '37, William Dennis '36, Howard H. Derrickson '35, Joseph K. Gilligan '36, William H. M. Glazier '36, Nathaniel M. Goodhue '36, Henry O. Marcy '37, Roger B. Martin '37, William C. McCarthy '35, Samuel L. Miller '37, John Ney '35, John R. O'Neill '36, Louis H. Orr '36, Thomas L. Perry '37, Arthur S. Pier '37, Arthur H. Rice '34, Ed S. Roys '36, David W. Schoonmaker '36, William S. Shrader '37, Arthur C. Sullivan '36, Arthur W. Todd '35, and Aronsen A. Vitagliano...
Broadway--$.30-.40-.35.* $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon, Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old May-fair; good place if one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...