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Four skippers combined Sunday to cop the Boston Dinghy Club Cup from an M.I.T. team which was considered practically invincible in its own Basin. The coup de grace was a canny port tack by Frank Scully at the start of the final race. The move won the race for Harvard and overcome M.I.T.'s three point lead...
...Their bark is louder than their bite," one Yard cop said. "I heard the fire-crackers all the way over on Francis Avenue, near Somerville." He added "the proctors are the ones who should get in trouble for not trying to quell the riot, and not students...
When the bullet-riddled body of Philadelphia Policeman James T. Morrow was found in an empty lot back in 1936, his fellow officers set out to show the world that cop-killing never pays. First they exacted a confession from a suspect named Joseph Broderick. On second thought, they let him go and got another from a feebleminded 19-year-old named George Bilger. The obliging Bilger (who happily confessed a lot of other crimes, too) was promptly sent off to the penitentiary. But after three years, the cops had a new thought: the murder had been committed...
...Court Judge Astor Hogg just had time to get his jaws ajar and allow it was "the beginning of a new era" when the Beach boys, who dabble in bootlegging, drove into downtown Harlan, the county seat, and fired six bullets into 45-year-old Avery Hensley, a former cop. In the words of Kentucky's standard indictment form, Avery Hensley "did then & there die." Six hours later, Avery's stepson Joe Hensley was sitting in a parked car outside the bus terminal when two Harlan policemen and a friend got out of a police car and walked...
...know, the race goes off at 7:30 this morning, the crack a dawn, and the place is really jumping already. Over at the stables last night there was a lotta activity, what with dolls lining up guys in case they cop the classic today, and I even hear one young one say something about "doggin...