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...BERRY Rochester, N. Y...
...border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...
Next year the Lee Wade prize of $50 will be given to the Debating Council to be awarded to one of the best speakers in the annual H-Y-P debate. For this year the Corporation has voted to give the prize both to one of the winners in the speaking contest and to a high man in the Triangular Debate...
Organizers of the Progressive Schools' Committee were Mr. & Mrs. William Mann Fincke Jr., who run little Manumit School on a 175-acre farm in the Berkshire foothills at Pawling, N. Y. Aided by scholarship funds from an anonymous philanthropist, Mrs. Fincke, a buxom, vivacious blonde, daughter of famed Feminist Louise Fowler Gignoux, took under her motherly wing six adult refugees (including a German actress who supported herself and daughter in the U. S. by scrubbing floors), 23 children (Gentiles & Jews) of lawyers, bankers, teachers, artists. Last week Mrs. Fincke had some astounding stories to tell of refugees' behavior...