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...bloodhounds, rounded up 60 thoroughly terrified Negroes who had been at the meeting, jailed 32 on charges of attempted murder and assault, criminal conspiracy, and carrying concealed weapons. The four wounded fugitives had vanished. Camp Hill's police chief cryptically remarked: ''They went out to chop stove wood and haven't returned...
Culver Academy's reiterated aim is one that many an older school regards as supererogatory: to train the youth in self-control, stick-to-it-iveness, fair play, courage, self-restraint, etc. etc. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, stove manufacturer and onetime itinerant clock salesman whose own education had been meagre, it has today a fine military Tudor-Gothic plant and 677 cadets?twice as many as any other U. S. private military school. On the wooded shores of Lake Maxinkuckee it stands, hard by the farm where Founder Culver met and married Emily Jane Hand...
...steamer when the "Seeadler" was in bad need of drinking-water. "We had nothing but an old cannon made in 1820," he said, "but still we had to capture a ship. Finally we sighted a steamer, and sailed over to meet her. We put a long piece of stove piping over the end of our old gun, loaded it, and placed it ready for action. I scattered my men around the ship to yell out orders, because," he said with a smile, "one must have something to scare the enemy...
When St. Gandhi entered New Delhi to do verbal battle with Viceroy Baron Irwin (TIME, March 2) at least 80,000 Indians mobbed him with acclaim. Affectionate pressure stove in a window of the Mahatma's automobile, showered his blanket with splintered glass. But last week the skinny little champion managed to leave New Delhi amid a demonstration twice as orderly, half as large. He had only signed a truce...
Then Benita lay on the kitchen floor and inhaled gas from the stove until she was dead...