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Peter Hugens '57 and classmate Michael Durham had just left a Boston bar on Summer Street at closing time when three men, with whom they had recently been talking, followed Hugens and jumped him unexpectedly while Durham walked on a few paces ahead. Durham immediately ran into the middle of the street looking for help. He eluded the men as they chased him and stopped the first cab he found...
Meanwhile Hugens, who had suffered a blow in the eye and minor contusions, escaped also, and Durham returned to find him at a nearby subway station. Taken to Stillman Infirmary, Hugens was temporarily released Saturday...
Hugens later said that he and Durham had been talking to the men only a few moments before the mugging and did not feel that they had antagonized them...
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Duke's William T. ("Lap") Laprade, 69, who started teaching history at Durham's little Trinity College in 1909, went right on without turning a hair as the college vanished in a cloud of tobacco smoke and emerged as one of the richest and most gothic of U.S. universities. A specialist on the 18th century, Lap paced about his platform, waved his arms, laced his lectures with gossipy bulletins about the scandals and scoundrels, the brains and bunglers, of the courts and cabinets of yore. Pretending never to be satisfied ("Well," he would say of the best...