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Early last September, filibustering Peruvians staged a private raid, seized Leticia. expelled the town's Colombian officials and called on all Peru to applaud their deed. Most of Peru applauded. The surge of patriotism was too strong to be resisted by President Luiz M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru, into whose tough little body would-be assassins have all too often fired bullets (TIME, March 14). By the end of last September both Colombia and Peru were mobilizing men, money and munitions. In Bridgeport, Conn, on Sept. 30, close-lipped Saunders Norvell, president of Remington Arms Co., exuberantly exclaimed...
...were on everything from a "Shocking Instance of Arabian Jealousy" to "The Cross of Christ," all rife with much the same sort of atmosphere, thrills and shocks. Most of them had castles with ghostly portrait galleries, musty, deserted wings where mysterious manuscripts telling of some "awful" murder or horrible deed were discovered. The heroine is beautiful, but elusive. "Her mind is . . . like a jewel contained in a most beautiful casket." The hero is a brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories, he begins a peasant boy, to rise to great heights. The villain has the miraculous ability...
...mission in some form is a matter not of choice but of obligation. . . . But the essential rightness of the mission idea will not save actual missions from decline or extinction unless in spirit and deed they worthily present that idea...
...University's latest purchase of land became known late Wednesday afternoon, when a deed to a piece of land between Gore and McKinlock Halls was recorded with the Middlesex South District Deeds, dated November 23, and being numbered 137 of that date. This latest addition to the University's land holdings completes Harvard ownership of all land along the nothern side of Memorial Drive from Eliot House to the Cambridge Electric Light Company, with the exception of a public playground between Dunster House and the Maintenance Department location...
...learned that the University had for some time been contemplating purchases of this land, but that sale had been delayed until suitable price arrangements could be made. The deed was filed bearing @23 in documentary stamps, which indicates that the sale price was in the neighborhood...