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During javelin practice at Bowdoin College in the spring of 1932, Freshman Tapping Selah Reeve had the back of his head pierced by a javelin. He pulled the spiked rod from his skull, ran a quarter mile to the college infirmary. Last week Tapping Reeve, 23, was a Bowdoin junior with senior standing, president of Chi Psi fraternity, manager of the junior varsity football team...
Short, slim Frank O'Malley was 31 when, in 1906, the late Editor Selah Merrill ("Boss") Clarke of the Sun hired him as a reporter. New at the profession, O'Malley showed no greenness. His intimates say "he was born sophisticated." Within a few weeks he was roving the streets, a "space man." His first week on space netted him $72.58, princely for that day. Added to a good reporter's alertness to detail were O'Malley's Irish humor and sensitivity to pathos. Combined they made him a master of the human interest story...
...Judge Selah [B. Strong] of the New York Supreme Court is quoted as declaring : "Frankly, a separation action [in the U. S.] is usually alimony-grabbing and nothing else...
...that is of the value of one dollar, and wanteth to sell it to his companions for skekels of the value of three dollars. When the prophet saith, "put money in thy purse," he meaneth not that thou shouldst strive to found a national bank in thy vest pocket. Selah...