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When Caspar W. Weinberger '38 left Dunster House to depart for his home in San Francisco, California, last spring, he was in such a hurry that he left his trunk to be shipped by another...
Weinberger's trunk fell into the hands of a man who dislikes railways but likes boats. He placed the trunk on a freight steamer bound for Frisco through the Canal...
...brisk October morning last year, in a parking lot at North Arlington, N. J., a policeman, mildly curious, wakened a pimply youth of 18 asleep at the wheel of a large sedan. The boy yawned, told the inquisitive policeman to look in the car's trunk. The good cop did so and shuddered. Wedged in the trunk was the mangled body of Dr. James G. Littlefield, 63, stuffed in the rear seat the body of his wife. The boy, Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me., then told a strange and horrible story: that he had killed the old doctor...
...Pirogues weigh from 50 to 100 pounds, are 18 inches wide, six to 20 feet long. Among Cajuns and Baratarians (descendants of Pirate Jean Lafitte's band of buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire, then chipped with a hand-ax and machete, finally scraped with a piece of broken glass until it is as smooth as a wooden salad bowl...
Time & again Mr. Loree tried to connect his two roads. Time & again the Commission shook its head. In the 1920s he inconspicuously bought into small Eastern lines like the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash, presented the Commission with a plan for a "fifth trunk line'' to rank with Pennsylvania, B. & O )., New York Central and C. & O. roads. The Commission shook its head again. To the open dismay of Mr. Loree, the Pennsylvania was allowed to buy up the Lehigh and the Wabash. But it was 1928. stocks had gone up, and Mr. Loree...