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...Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle rolled ninepins with gnarled mountain gnomes for 20 years, there was great to-do last week. Woodstock's famed colony of artists, authors, actors, musicians, dilet- tantes and onlookers was preparing for its annual Maverick? Festival, a day-&-night bacchanale to which annually troop thousands of non-colonists to see arty fun. As the day (Aug. 29) approached indications were that in a long-standing feud between colonists and townsmen, the townsmen were for the moment a little ahead...
Whether or not Mrs. Naidu ever spoke as quoted, she advanced at the head of 50 placid marchers until faced by a troop of British police. When they would not let her pass, she called for a rocking chair, sat in it for 24 hours...
Rumanian censorship is famed. The robbery was kept secret for two days, though private apology was made by the Government to Mr. Dewey. On the third day the story leaked out, and in pompous full dress a whole troop of high officials arrived at Mr. Dewey's hotel to make official, abject apology, promise vengeance, restitution...
...From the troop of indistinguishable names that filed before the committee, a few stood out as real characters. Among these were...
Yale has played seven games, winning six and losing the other to the Cincinnati Riding Club. It has defeated Squadron A, Army, twice, Princeton, the Cleveland Troop A, and Harvard...