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...stiff, and he could hardly open his mouth. He had difficulty in swallowing, and he was suffering from severe pains in his legs and back. St. James doctors had no trouble diagnosing Douma's problem: he was dying from tetanus (lockjaw) caused by a dirty wooden splinter he had picked up in his chicken yard 13 days before...
Yesterday's game concluded regular season action at Soldiers Field (otherwise known as Splinter Stadium or Kindlingstick Park). The Crimson's record is now 18-4, 7-2 in the Eastern League, and 6-0 in the Greater Boston League. For their play in the GBL, Drummey, Morse, Bartolet, and Del Rossi should get all-star awards at the league banquet today...
Harvard's varsity baseball team returns to the friendly pastures of Soldiers Field (affectionately known to the diamond faithful as Splinter Stadium) this afternoon for its final game of the 1962 regular season. Northeastern, which twice before has tried to come to Cambridge, only to be halted by traditional local rains, will be the opponent...
During a three-hour session over sherry and dinner at Winthrop House, Steen compared the American radical right to the Socialist People's Party of Norway, a splinter group which favors unilateral disarmament and Norwegian withdrawal from NATO. "They are similar in tone and approach to your 'thunder on the right.' They don't like it that Norway is on this 'globe; they want to live apart from the world," he said...
Under the circumstances, a relatively impressive showing was made by the youthful Progressive Party, a liberal splinter group of the U.P. The only strong national party favoring abolition of apartheid and direct representation of nonwhites in the Assembly, the Progressive group was formed in 1959 by eleven U.P. members disenchanted with their party's racism. Although in the election they lost ten of their eleven seats to U.P. candidates pledged to rub them out, the Progressives pulled in 69,000 votes (20,000 more than anticipated) from defecting moderates fed up with the lack of racial alternatives between...