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...records were made: Robert Playfair of Roxbury Latin broke through the tape in the 600-yard run in 1 min. 18 1-5 sec. after leading the whole field from the start. Nathaniel Goodhue of Milton made the other record when he romped around the 1000-yard...
When Crummies Played. This is the first of six plays, each to run four weeks, which will be produced by the Garrick Players during the season. This particular piece, first presented at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, by Sir Nigel Playfair, concerns the presentation by Mr. Vincent Crummies' Players, of a play which portrayed the temptations and disaster of a young apprentice in the City. A nice, tweedy audience enjoyed the "satirical picture of the players, adapted from [an episode in] Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby...
...decidedly graphic description. Gullible readers devoured it. Careful readers laughed, for it was a fact, published in newspapers throughout the land, that W. E. Playfair of the Associated Press was the only newspaperman permitted in the death house to view the execution...
Five guards took their posts in the death house, two to adjust electrodes, one at the blue lethal door, two to call at the cells. One newsgatherer, W. E. Playfair of the AssociatedPress, was included among the seven official witnesses of man killing...
Evolution and Heredity. The "keynote speech" was delivered by Dr. J. Playfair McMurrich, professor of anatomy at the University of Toronto, President of the Association in 1922 (by custom, the presidential address is given by the president of the preceding year). He devoted his time to a retrospective view of biological science, and particularly to the theory of organic evolution and its place in the scheme of life. Evolution is not dead, he said, nor can it be killed by legislative enactment. Any one who refuses to believe in it today is ignorant or bigoted. In its main outlines...