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Before the midyear period calls a halt on Freshman activities at the Union, it has been decided to have a "motion picture night," which will come on Thursday. There will be a complete cinema entertainment showing Charles Chaplin in "The Adventurer," Harvard-Yale football pictures, and "The Covered Wagon," an outstanding feature picture of several years ago. The Union Committee has rented these pictures from the Kotlascope Film Library of Boston. Members of the Class of 1935 will supply the projector and show the films. During the performance, the 1935 Union orchestra will make its initial appearance for the approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MURDOCK TO SPEAK TO 1935 AT UNION MEETING TONIGHT | 1/12/1932 | See Source »

...murder of a noted bandit and racketeer is bound to be a matter of some interest to the "composite reader," When in addition the victim has successively over a seventeen-year period matured felonious little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLITTER OF DIAMOND | 12/19/1931 | See Source »

...down trails from Cerro Alto and Santa Rita mesas, where the nutters were camped. Within a few days the Indians' small supplies were exhausted. Hungry ponies hunched head-to-head in the icy blast. Families crouched over small fires or cowered in the protection of their thin canvas wagon tops. It was decided that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement near Gallup, there strengthen them and bring them back. Three hundred braves trudged into the Zuni pueblos last week, dropped exhausted on the warm earthen floors. As soon as they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Nuts & Snow | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...shadow of Stone Mountain Memorial, Bud Jaban and two companions were riding in a wagon pulled by two horses. Along came an automobile, crashed into the wagon. When the dust cleared Bud Jaban was sitting on the far horse, his companions had been thrown through the side of a house, the near horse was sitting in the wagon. A buckle struck a passerby, knocked him down a 30-ft. bank. Two others ran to help, stumbled, one breaking two ribs, the other cutting his face. The automobile driver started his car, drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...condemned by building inspectors and Harvard Square business men objected to the permanent removal of the apparatus to a distant station. Mayor Russell did not know yesterday how many pieces of apparatus would be accomodated but the original plans were for a 60 foot hook and ladder, a hose wagon, and a pumping engine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW FIRE STATION WILL BE BUILT IN COLONIAL STYLE | 11/19/1931 | See Source »

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