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...Hall's 178 windows. But candle-burning seemed dangerous and in 1827 Brown's President Francis Wayland put a ban upon it. No use for students and alumni to protest by burning a tar barrel on the campus; their president rushed out from his house and angrily drove them away...
...London, Crown Prince Mihai spent a few exciting days. He went to the South Kensington Science Museum, drove a fire-engine, was allowed to warm up the engine of one of his mother's cars, had tea in Buckingham Palace. Suddenly King Carol cancelled the rest of his son's vacation, ordered him back to Bucharest. Princess Helen motored her son down to Dover, bade him a tearful farewell. "I'll try to telephone you, mummy, but they won't let me," he cried...
...fishermen counted eight sharks. For 15 minutes unnoticed by the battling fish they watched while the water grew red about the boat. Then there was a lull and a moment later the swordfish appeared floating belly up on the surface. Before the sharks could devour it the fishermen drove them oft. hoisted what was left of the carcass into their boat. Minus head and tail it weighed nearly...
...milk so the pop bottle will fill up quickly." Norman B. Collins, president of Security Bank and Second Security Bank of Chicago, and his wife were kidnapped in Wilmette (Chicago suburb) by five men in a black sedan who demanded $100,000 ransom. Arguing with their captors as they drove hither & yon, Mr. & Mrs. Collins got the demand down to $5,000. She was released to telephone to Chairman James B. Forgan Jr. of Second Security Bank, while Banker Collins rode on in the black sedan. Banker Collins was later released, failed to say whether or not ransom was paid...
That first Metropolitan performance made people want to know all about unknown Lily Pons. Her father was an automobile pioneer who drove a Sizaire-Naudin car from Paris to Pekin, got lost in the Urals, starved in Tibet and had to be towed the latter part of his journey. Lily grew up in Paris where her mother did millinery. She studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire but when, during the War, she attempted to play Bach and Debussy for soldiers she usually ended by singing...