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...Wexler breweries at Paterson and Union City were returning profits at the rate of $2,277,000 per year. 'Legger Wexler bought $10 shirts, rode in limousines, kept an elaborate apartment with three master bedrooms, a library, a living room, a dining room, an American walnut bar, a stained-glass window. He spent $4,200 for leather-bound volumes of Scott. Dickens, Thackeray. Once he paid for a set of Lincoln and Jefferson to give to "a politician." Last April, Plug-uglies Hassel and Greenberg were murdered in a New Jersey hotel. Irving Wexler dried his eyes and went...
Shooting will begin at the Walnut Hill range today, it was announced. No .30 calibre matches will take place until spring, but a .22 team may be formed to shoot on the Stadium range. The club has 8,000 rounds of .30 calibre ammunition on hand...
Last week "Brother Charley" called newshawks around his big walnut four- poster. To demonstrate his improvement, he stepped out and stood up in his muslin nightshirt, a pale, bald, old man doggedly fighting for a physical and political comeback. Then he announced Nebraska's new Senator - white-haired William Henry Thompson, a good party friend whom he had put on the State Supreme Court. Born in a Ohio log cabin 79 years ago, son of a blacksmith, Senator Thompson had served on the commission that built Nebraska's new $10,000,000 Capitol...
Adding to its laurels, the Harvard File Club decisively defeated the Boston College sharpshooters, 546-523 at the range of the Walnut Hill Rifle Club in Woburn yesterday afternoon. The course consisted of ten shots prone, ten shots offhand and five shots sitting for a possible 125 points. The day's scores were: For Harvard: Captain J. A. Booth '33, 117; F. H. Poor '34, 109; David Weld '34, 108; Fisher Howe, III '35, 106; Eugene DuBois '33, 106. For Boston: Jansen, 108; Jones, 105; C. Hagen, 105; Mc-Laughlin, 103; Shine, 102. Early in the season B. C. defeated...
...Harvard Rifle team won its first .30 calibre match of the season against Trinity College at the Walnut Hill Rifle Range yesterday afternoon, 450-433. Nine men shot for Harvard and eight for Trinity, but only the first five best scores on each side were counted. Last year Harvard was defeated by Trinity by approximately the same margin that the Crimson sharpshooters won by this year. The next Harvard match will be with Boston College...