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...name Sherlock, at the last moment, supported that of I. Sherrinford, Watson was originally Ormond Sacker,--and to prove it there is reprinted a cut of the first page of Doyle's manuscript. Doyle, himself, engaged in detective activities with gratifying success. Four publishers sniffed at the "Study in Scarlet" before Ward, Lock & Co. achieved immortality by purchasing the copyright for 25 pounds...
...declare a six to ten-year all-American moratorium on international public and private debts. As high words began to fly, correspondents pressed their ears to the broad panels of the Steering Committee's door. Scandalized, the Conference secretariat sent Uruguayan Republican guards in blue uniforms with scarlet breastplates, spiked steel helmets and imposing white-holstered revolvers to chase the correspondents away. Thereafter newshawks were held at a distance of two corridors from the Steering Committee...
...Alighting from their limousines in a sudden squall of wind and rain, delegates of 21 American nations clutched their silk hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm out of the fashionable crush before President Terra took the rostrum. Their empty seats touched off pinwheels of rumor that "Paraguay has withdrawn from the Conference! She is afraid...
Tied for first place, each team had gained the same number of laps over the rest of the pack. William John ("Torchy'') Peden, 27, a rangy Canadian with a flaming mop above his scarlet jersey, was the tallest, heaviest (216 lb.) rider in the race. Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull...
...November 1869 a group of 25 Princeton students in orange jerseys met 25 Rutgers men with scarlet bands around their heads for the first game of intercollegiate football in the U. S. Rutgers won 6-to-4, by kicking six times over the goalposts, and afterwards ran the Princeton boys out of town. Last week one of the five known survivors of the two teams, Lawyer John W. Herbert of Manhattan, sat in Princeton's Palmer Stadium with President Harold W. Dodds, watching Princeton and Rutgers play again. It was their first game since 1915. Up to that time...