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Considerable stir occurred in Yard circles Saturday when it was found that in anticipation of an attack on the Harvard Hall bell, newly located in the loft of the now chapel, Major Apted had placed one of his men in the upper regions of Thayer Hall. The watchman, ready to give the alarm if a light should appear in the steelwork of the chapel tower, was not, as some have said, celebrating the coming holiday. For the seventh consecutive day, however, Memorial Hall was in silence at the turn of the hour, and it looks as though the clapper case...
...Across the Raritan River from Highland Park, N. J., someone tried to break into the nursery of Diane Johnson, seven weeks, whose father is vice president of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings). The marauder leaped from his ladder, exchanged shots with a night watchman, fled. Police soon collared a suspect...
...small, rheumatic terrier was in the house but did not bark while the child was being taken. There was no watchman, since Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh had never remained more than a week-end in their white, Colonial, $50,000 house since it was built, spending most of their non-flying time at the Morrow home in Englewood. There was a floodlight system on the grounds but it was not in use. These facts led some guessers to imagine that the person or persons who took the child knew that the Lindberghs were going to stay longer than their usual weekend...
...various parts and the assemblers, Georges Pellaton retired. With time on his hands he set himself the task of devising a watch to run by electricity. Since nobody could carry a watch wired to a power socket, he had to put the power within the watch. After twelve years Watchman Pellaton perfected a storage battery no larger than the winding mechanism of an ordinary watch. The battery is recharged like any other storage battery, but very slowly. The charge lasts a year. It differs in principle from self-winding watches in that the electricity actually makes the watch go, does...
...Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...