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...November 1916, Henry Ward Ranger, a self-taught and highly successful landscape painter, dropped dead of heart failure in his Manhattan studio. He left an estate of about $225,000 to the National Academy of Design for the purpose of buying paintings of living U. S. artists (or those not twelve months cold) and presenting them to U. S. museums. Last week the Academy's committee handed out 13 slices of Ranger pie to eager museums all over the country, as follows...
Unlike the Rangers, the Maple Leafs depend on speed and power, not on clever hockey and adroit passes. In Toronto, needing one game more to end the series, the Maple Leafs quickly piled up five goals. Only one Ranger shot, by Frank Boucher, got past Lome Chabot, who used to be goalie for the Rangers. In the last period, Boucher was busy again. He passed to Bun Cook for one goal, made two more himself in less than two minutes. By this time it was too late. The Maple Leafs stopped protecting their lead long enough to score one more...
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That was the first that Farmer Emerson Salisbury, 73, knew about the jail break that had taken place four hours prior and nine miles away at the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth ("The Bankers Institute"). Six men had escaped, dragging spectacled Warden Thomas B. White, onetime Texas Ranger, along with them as hostage. No one knew how they got their arms or passes to enter the warden's office...
...Goal--Baer. Referee--John Hume. Time--Four 32-minute periods. Freshman DEAN HARVARD Sutcliff, g. g., England Sausouci, l.f.b. r.f.b., Irving Regra, r.f.b. l.f.b., Coleman Jones, l.h.b. r.h.b., Fuess Lewis, c.h.b. c.h.b., McGoodwin Willoughby, r.h.b. l.h.b., Kingsley Rachotas, l.o.f., r.o.f., Clos Ferrl, l.i.f. r.i.f., Reed McKenna, c.f. c.f., Stork Ranger, r.i.f. l.i.f., Russell James, r.o.f. l.o.f., Robbins...