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The big odd-lot brokerage house of deCoppet & Doremus is famed for other things than quick and accurate execution of customers' orders. Some of its partners' cultural adventures are as well-known as their business deals. Last week dapper Rowland Stebbins, Broadway's most successful stage "angel" for several seasons...
By an old and grim law of the French Republic, the guillotine must be set up in a public place to discourage wrongdoers. Modern French police do everything in their power to make it difficult for the morbid to see an execution. Last week strong police cordons blocked off the...
¶The Princeton chess team: the Belden-Stephens Trophy in the seventh tournament of the H. Y. P. D. College Chess League; with 7½ points to 6 for Harvard, 5½ for Dartmouth, 5 for Yale. ¶Roger F. Turner of Boston and Maribel Y. Vinson, 19, Radcliffe junior...
Tired of captivity, Tusko broke out of his chains, butted down one wall of his barn, wandered outside. There he amused himself by tearing a door from the barn, tossing it around, while Owners O'Grady & Gray telephoned for police. Ten police sharpshooters went to the scene, hesitated to...
On March 10, 1930, the Erlanger will was filed. The will stated specifically that its author was unmarried. A few days later Lawyer Steuer filed his bill of objections, contending that the will in question was not the last Erlanger will, that at the time of its execution Erlanger was...