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Again in 1660 The Grand Assembly resolved to have a college, like Harvard for the education of ministers. It was called "The Colledge", but didn't exist till William and his wife Mary granted a charter in 1693. An English official answered the colonist's plea with "Damn your souls--make tobacco", but the charter went through...
...After dinner his daughter Pamela clambered into the dinghy and accidentally cast herself adrift without oars. Wakefield hauled up anchor and sailed after the girl but only went hard aground. The dinghy drifted on into a marsh while Wakefield frantically waved red flares for help and SOS'd till the batteries were dead. Nobody came. Pamela stumbled through the marsh to the home of a vacationing Coast Guardsman and next morning returned with him to the stranded yacht...
Fever Favor. In Milwaukee, a Federal court, hearing that Defendant Michael Idzik had hay fever, postponed his trial till after the first frost...
...sitting on his porch in Norfolk, Va., told the rest of the story. "At daybreak the ship had a terrible list to starboard. Her flight deck was in the water. Her battle flags were still flying. We hadn't taken them down. As she went over, they flew till they were in the water. She went down, no commotion, no explosions, no fire. She went stern first...
...Chicago's suburb Highland Park, one harassed young housewife gets up early, prepares breakfast, packs the children off to school, sets about the housework-while the maid she has employed for five years sleeps till noon. The maid married a soldier at Fort Sheridan a few months ago, now rents the servant's room in exchange for a few afternoon's work a week. Occasionally she works by the hour for neighbors, earns more in 10-15 hours a week than she did as a full-time maid...