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This year there have been at least 25 salmon derbies around Puget Sound - at Port Townsend, Port Angeles, Everett, one for high-school kids, one for Boeing Aircraft employes, one for Elks, one for those who have never qualified for any other derby. All spring and summer, Western Washingtonians combed the waters of the Sound, trying to land a salmon big enough to qualify them for one of the derby finals - and a chance to win an automobile or a whopping cash prize...
While sacrificing Harvard's most sacred buildings to the barbarous freshmen was viewed with consternation by many old-timers, the change has not yet destroyed the buildings and Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric emeritus, beloved for many years as "Copey" and known as a fixture in Hollis Hall, has observed that the Freshmen are quite as gentlemanly as the Seniors...
Abend produced the manuscript of a book about Frederick Townsend Ward, U. S. soldier-adventurer who once led a Chinese army to put down a rebellion, died 78 years ago. The Japanese took charge of the manuscript (representing nine months' work by Author Abend), ransacked the apartment, wrenched out the telephone, gave Abend's head another cuff, his arm another twist, departed...
...delinquency sales have been growing. Typical was Atlantic City, N. J., whose Controller Bessie Townsend described the problem as a race to sell properties to private buyers and put them back on the tax rolls faster than they come into the city's hands...
...Townsend scholarships to Edward M. Davis Jr., of Shirley, Mass.; and Milton T. Heald, of Woburn, Mass...