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After the end of three figures, the sixteen-year-old Miss Heiss was leading, 449.5 to 446.5 in the compulsory figure division of the championships which counts 60 per cent of the final scoring. The free skating division, Miss Heiss's specialty, which counts 40 per cent, will take place tomorrow to wind up the competition. Tenley defeated Miss Heiss in the Olympics...
...Sixteen Hours. All or most of this was well known to the villagers of Borley when the Smiths took over their parish. In local pubs the rectory was known as "the most haunted house in England." Within a year, thanks to Rector Smith himself and an enthusiastic ghost hunter named Harry Price, its infamy had spread throughout the nation. Harry Price, an affable hobbyist of independent means, was far and away Britain's best-known investigator of psychic phenomena. His books on the subject were legion and readable, and his spectacular exposures of fake spiritualists were invariably good...
...candlesticks hurtled through the air. Rappings and tappings sounded from all sides like a telegraphers' convention. Even the ghostly nun Marie put in a polite appearance in honor of the visitor. Altogether, wrote Price later, "it was a day to be remembered even by an experienced investigator . . . Sixteen hours of thrills...
Tragedy of Errors. France was restless and unhappy in the 1880s and early 1890s. The army was still licking its wounded pride over Germany's blitz victory of 1870-71. Church and state intermittently sniped at each other. Sixteen Cabinets formed and fell in a dozen years. It was an edgy and suspicious age, and no one was edgier or more suspicious than the staff of the innocuously named Statistical Section, the French army's counterintelligence agency...
...effective and colorful as ever, though his backhand was somewhat weak. He would frequently run as far as the doubles alley on the left side of the court to avoid hitting a backhand. Hartwig was disappointingly erratic. He seems easily the most dispensable of the crew. Segura has won sixteen matches, Hartwig five...