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The finals were begun last Wednesday, when Cummings and Perkins battled through four sets, only to be stopped by darkness. At this point the score was 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 5-7, 1-0. Cummings won the first and third sets with comparative ease, but dropped the other...
The sentencing by Judge John Richard Caverly of Leopold and Loeb to the penitentiary for life is the end, so far as court records are concerned, of what has been called "the greatest murder trial of all times." It has resulted, however, in giving a preferred position before the bar...
¶Professing to feel refreshed from their vacation Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge and their son John boarded the Presidential special at Ludlow. For two hours they stood on the back platform waving to crowds at stations; then darkness fell and next morning they were in Washington.
The story dates from an old play called The Road to Yesterday. The characters stare soulfully at the spotlight and wish for the romantic glory of the Middle Ages; the lights go out, stage hands scurry and scenery bumps in the darkness; the lights revive on a 15th Century garden...
And then there are the canals. The presence of the major canals are fairly well established by a number of observations. The late Prof. Percival Lowell at his observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., claimed the discovery of as many as 585 canals. Some of these are doubted as optical illusions. These...