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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington moved out in the spring, and the house was unoccupied until 1781, when a wealthy shipowner bought it, holding resplendent balls in what had once been the officers' wardroom. At one dinner party he served genuine frog soup, with a live bullfrog jumping around in each plate. The result of all this was that he went bankrupt. A few years later Dr. Andrew Craigie bought the mansion, giving it its present name. Another extravagant fellow, he added two piazzas and tried desperately to make his young, beautiful, and eccentric wife happy there. But he went bankrupt, too, and only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/14/1947 | See Source »

...hurled a four-hitter, started two double plays, and clouted a home run to aid in his 12 to 3 victory over the Elis. At the same time, hitless catcher George Strout reverted to an old diamond cure for blindness. He switched over to the left side of the plate and knocked out a single and a double in three trips...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Finale | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

...best performance, however, was turned in by Bucky Harrison, who pitched Kirkland to a 9 to 2 win over Dudley. The chunky hurlor doled out one hit and chalked up 10 strikeouts. Gerry Glynn led the Deacons at the plate with a triple, double, and single in four trips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-House Diamond Frays Produce Eliot-Winthrop Tie | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

Married. Arline Judge, 35, pert-faced cinemactress; and Henry J. (Bob) Topping, 33, tin-plate heir; she for the fifth time (her second: Dan Topping, brother of the current groom), he for the third; in Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...meek at the plate as it was potent afield and on the mound, the Varsity baseball team dropped one-run decisions to Pennsylvania and Princeton at the Nassau diamond Saturday, tumbling from first to fourth place in the Ivy League in the process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Downs Crimson Nine 1-0, After Penn Takes Morning Game 3-2 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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