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...Elected Dean of Yale's Law School was Ashbel ("Pail"-from ashpail) Green Gulliver. Of Dean Gulliver's three immediate predecessors, two (Thomas Walter Swan and Charles Edward Clark) are now judges of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the third (Robert Maynard Hutchins) is president of University of Chicago. Under them, Yale's Law School rose to top rank, today vies with Harvard's for the distinction of being the most illustrious law school...
...Louder, Browder!" yelled the crowd outside. Someone led a long Yale cheer for Browder that drowned out his speech. Someone else dumped a pail of water from the roof. The crowd chanted the famed Undertaker's Song. Soon paper bags and firecrackers began to pop. An old lady rushed up to a policeman shrieking: "Disband this group of ruffians...
Near Oklahoma City, Okla., a truck rolled downhill out of control, snapped off a pole bearing a high-voltage wire, which fell across a metal sign, which touched a barbed wire fence, which set fire to a patch of grass, on which Farmer R. M. W. Cody threw a pail of water, which splashed on the electrified fence, electrocuting Farmer Cody...
Louis' gluttony was gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged...
...Public Health Service, who reported that goldfish might contain tapeworms which, lodging in the intestinal tract, would give swallowers anemia. Nevertheless, collegiate swallowing continued.* Gordon ("Doc") Southworth, of Massachusetts' Middlesex University's School of Veterinary Medicine, stationed himself beside Soldiers Monument on Waltham Common with a pail of goldfish, in 14 minutes swallowed 67. At University of Missouri Marie Hansen became the first co-ed to swallow a goldfish. Champion at week's end: Clark University's Joseph Deliberato-89 fish...