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There is a rumor that the first draft of a cover for Lampy's Freshman number called for a few alterations. The central figure, one hears, bore a starling resemblance to one James B. Conant...
...paramount purposes of introducing the series of lectures, receptions, and speeches scheduled for incoming students within the next three days was to acquaint them with the policies and mechanical routine of the College, and to let them orient themselves before a horde of dissolute upperclassmen bore down to disturb the pre-college peace. Towards accomplishing this purpose, the meetings have been an assistance...
...Eastern Shore of Maryland bore the full brunt of the storm. The waves washed clean through Ocean City to the inner bay. Cars were buried in sand. At Salisbury all able-bodied men were drafted to dig a ditch to divert the Wicomico River and save the town. At Scotland Beach where his cottage was washed away Missouri's onetime (1915-33) Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer had to swim 200 yards for his life before he was hauled into a rowboat. At Dover the Delaware State Capitol was badly soaked. The famed du Pont Highway was closed to traffic...
...Ayer & Son, Inc. "B. A. I. S. 1869"† national agency with headquarters in Philadelphia, last week pointedly dropped the account of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wilfred Washington Fry, Ayer son-in-law president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled to Repeal, Mr. Fry on learning that Canada Dry would soon be selling beer and whiskey, insisted that N. W. Ayer should...
...after day the patient rifleman waited. After a week's slinking Garr, worried lest the story of his plight leak out and raise a laugh at his expense, called off his ambusher by printing an apology. When Carrie Watson, his mistress but a madam in her own right, bore him a son whom she refused to surrender, they parted coldly. Garr balanced their account when she died of an overdose of laudanum and the Chronicle announced: CARRIE WATSON COLLECTS WAGES OF SIN-CRIME NEVER PAYS. An enraged mob once wrecked the Chronicle's plant; at 10:30 next...