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...manner of the Scopes trial of the '20s, great legal eagles are flown in and the press comes to roost. The trial drags on as the lawyers find in a few inches of local precipitation the world issue of Religion v. Science. Crops go unsown, the town goes almost broke before the preacher gets the atheist to admit, on penalty of being shown "negligent," that he himself prayed for the rain to stop. Clearly then, says the preacher, it was prayer against prayer, and the case has already been judged in the Highest Court...
...opener. On Saturday, the team will stride the Winchester Country Club's fairways against Brown and the Purple, and if all this pitching and putting results in a tie, Sunday will be used for a third and decisive match. Whichever squad ends up as king of the New England roost will proceed to the Eastern finals the following weekend...
Boston College's talented baseball team opens its season against the Varsity this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Eagles' Newton roost. Picked by Hub sportswriters as the strongest team in the Boston area, the Eagles reputedly have former all-scholastic diamond stars liberally sprinkled at all positions, and a couple of veteran hurlers back from former seasons...
...still trying to solve. For himself he built an industrial empire of coal mines, rubber plantations, iron mines, timberland, sawmills, hydroelectric works, companies in a dozen other nations. The empire's capital was the plant on the River Rouge where the stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated Henry Ford ruled the roost. At one time it was estimated that he was worth $2 billion. The bankers tried to horn in on the empire, but he repulsed them. He had a low opinion of all bankers-especially Eastern...
...roost a while but don't get funny...