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Dates of the heads are uncertain; some authorities have placed them in the 13th century...
...collections are at least normal, the Class should have more than half this sum in the Harvard Treasury on the 13th Reunion...
...Circle of Chalk (produced by the Studio Theatre of the New School for Social Research) was adapted by the late German poet Klabund (Alfred Henschke) from a 13th-Century Chinese classic. (In 1925 it was a hit in Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby...
...fight was scheduled for 20 rounds. The fans began to wonder whether Simple Simon might last it out. Round after round Simon still stood on his feet, and the crowd went wild. How much punishment could this behemoth take? In the 13th round they had their answer. Dazed, dead-armed, after paralyzing rights to the jaw had floored him a third and a fourth time, the challenger suddenly turned his back on the champion, staggered over to the ropes. Louis, perplexed, stood stock-still, calmly watched the referee award him the fight on a technical knockout...
...trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire was put out 30,000 people were homeless and an epidemic threatened...