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...open qualifying round to select a challenger to meet William Stern II, world's champion puzzler (TIME, Sept. 29), Mrs. von Phul was runner-up to C. F. Hunter, of Sound Beach, Conn. Before the challenge round was played, Hunter had to rush for his afternoon train. So Mrs. von Phul stepped to the blackboard,* climbed her ladder, chalked up a solution several consonants and a number of vowels ahead of Puzzler Stern. As world's champion, Puzzler von Phul was thereupon showered with puzzle books, dictionaries, medals, flattery. Said she: "I don't know where...
...while few men lack the physical courage to risk their own lives, none will be willing to take the chance of having his wife and children die in their home because an enemy he has never seen can drop a bomb on his city." There is another puzzler. I can't make out whether it is an argument for war or for peace. The preceding paragraphs of the editorial would lead one to believe that war was all right, in fact rather amusing and delightful until it became so horrible, so sort of unfair and uncertain. This business...
...again as Pennsylvania. In 13 games Harvard has made 93 runs, to 39 of their opponents. In twelve games with almost precisely the same teams, the University of Pennsylvania made only 60 runs to 44 of their opponents. However during the first part of season, Bayne proved a complete puzzler to our men, and they beat us 13 to 9. On the 16th of April, five days after they beat us, they beat Yale 6 to 2, and on the 27th they beat Princeton 6 to 0. On the 7th of May we beat Princeton...
...team match between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania attracted some fifty spectators to the grounds of the Shooting Club, at Watertown, yesterday afternoon. Barring the wind, the conditions were favorable enough. The wind, however, was a gusty one, blowing directly across the range, and it proved a puzzler to the visitors. The match was begun at 3 o'clock, when the first shot for Harvard was fired. At end of the first round, Harvard had a lead of six birds, which at the end of the second was increased to seven, and then then to 13 in the third...