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...sign hung in front of New Hampshire's executive mansion in Concord read, "Puppies for sale. Mrs. John G. Winant." Breed: West Highland White and Scotch terriers. Puppies available: 60 of both sexes. Price...
...Scotch soccer team: from Ireland, the first international game of the season, 4 to 0; at Belfast...
...storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon received a reply from Angmagsalik that the Scotch trawler Lord Talbot would rescue them within two hours. Breaking waves quickly put the set out of commission. Pilot Hutchinson taxied the crippled ship to shore where the family and crew salvaged what they could before it turned turtle and sank in shallow water...
...Author Jesse Lynch Williams, the late Georgia Publisher Boudre Phinizy, Alonzo Church, vice-chancellor of New Jersey, Dr. Evan Evans, rich Manhattan physician. Lawyer Theodore Wilson Morris Jr., partner of Democrat John William Davis, and Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins, Princeton's Secretary. "Duff" was celebrated for an oration called "Scotch Granite," extolling Princeton's early President John Witherspoon. With generous gestures and booming voice, he delivered "Scotch Granite" whenever asked, passing it off many a time as extemporaneous. Because Edward Duffield's large bulk was mounted heavily upon large feet, he was sometimes called "Paddlefoot," 'and sometimes "How Firm...
Play began with Scotch (two-ball) foursomes. Paired with slim young George T. Dunlap Jr. against the crack British pair of long-driving John Stout and John Burke, champion of Ireland who signs his first name "Sean," Ouimet's putting helped his partner win four of the first five holes. The match was over at the 30th, with Ouimet & Dunlap 7 up. Captain Thomas Arthur ("Tony") Torrance of the British team and John De Forest, British Amateur champion, did very little better. They lost to Gus Moreland (in vited to join the U. S. team while he was winning...