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Gregoire at right wing and Lawless, crack center, will shine for B. U. in tonight's contest. Gregoire is a veteran of last year, scoring against Harvard in his team's victory. Lawless, one of the best intercollegiate centers in the game, will match speed and skill with Chase, Crimson ace. He will be one of the most formidable threats of the season to the University defense. Currier, on left wing, and Nelson, former Cambridge Latin player, at right wing, will complete the forward wall combination of the Terriers Gregoire will see action at right wing early in the game...
...Equipped with crackers, a bottle of milk and a play for reading, I was speeding in my limousine down Manhattan's Riverside Drive in the small hours of New Year's Eve last week. Biff, crack, splinter-clatter-the glass of the windows broke about me as another car, revelers within, ran head on into mine. Five stitches had to be taken in my eyelid, and my head is bandaged over other cuts. The New York Herald-Tribune, perhaps to increase sympathy, reported me as 'in the seventies...
...Crack Train. The New York Central's 20th Century Limited reached a peak in receipts for the year 1926-$10,500,000. It operated an average of more than six sections a day; carried one-half of the New York-Chicago passengers of the N. Y. C., one-third of the total passengers of all railroads between the two cities...
...Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most gems, opals must be aged slowly in clay to permit their water to evaporate. Dried too fast, they crack and disintegrate into dust...
...York World's crack columists; "It Seems to Me" by Heywood Broun and "The Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite" by Frank Sullivan...