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...Colin Maclaurin '38, Robert H. Shaw '37, Charles S. Rogers '37, and Dunbar Carpenter '37 will represent the Crimson in the Second Class events; a downhill run to be held on the Wildcat Trail tomorrow morning and a slalom race that afternoon...
Representatives of the Ski Team will compete in the New Hampshire Third Class Downhill Championship to be held Sunday afternoon on the Newport Trail at Sunapee, New Hampshire. At the same time three other Crimson skiers will race on the Wildcat Trail at Pinkham Notch in a Second Class run sponsored by the Appalachian Mountain Club...
...southeast of Kankakee, Ill. In 1842 a trader named David Foster bought for a few dollars from Chief La Fontaine several hundred swampy acres in the Miami Indian reservation. Two years later Trader Foster donated 40 acres and built a log courthouse for a townsite on Wildcat Creek. The village took the name of Kokomo from an Indian who frequented the settlement. History sometimes describes Indian Kokomo as an honorable and courageous chief, sometimes as a common coon-hunting, root-digging, rum-loving, shiftless, abusive no-account...
Screaming, fighting like a wildcat, he was carried to Ciechanow police station and soon identified as Casimir Tocinski, 9. He was physically far more mature than his age. His mother, a halfwit, herds cows in summer, sleeps in the barns of friendly farmers during the winter. Her son was taken to Warsaw, where psychiatrists reported him "a complete idiot possessing nothing but animal instincts." In the back country farmers crossed themselves and knew that doctors could do nothing to help Casimir Tocinski...
...people of Peru, weary of the Leguias, rose up under a red-eyed little wildcat of a man named Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro and overthrew the government. The Leguias were thrown into jail, charged with a list of peculations long as their pedigree, a list that reached all the way to Washington where it was testified before a Senate committee that the Manhattan firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. had paid Juan Leguia a "fee" of $415,000 for the privilege of lending $100,000,000 to Peru. All those bonds are now in default...