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...most sensational stories that has ever hit" New Haven, the capture of a ruthless gang of bookies by six Yale men aided by eight detectives, was reported in a recent Yale News. Exposed by Yale's radio station WOCD, the "biggest racketeers in New Haven" were caught in the act of burning and flushing racing forms as the Rover Boys broke down the doors...
...screen upon which the lens of the eye casts the image) has two kinds of visual cells: cones, each with its direct line to the brain; rods connected in multiple to the optic nerve fibers. The cones give sharp, color vision, work in bright light only. The rods "gang up" faint and dim impressions in weak light, catch no color. Some animals have cones but apparently no color vision; no known color-seeing animals have rod cells alone...
...music to many cars, but many like to combine these pleasant sounds with the sweet strains of a fine orchestra. Sunday night, May 23rd, is Officers' night at "Pops," a concert of popular and semi-classical music by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Arthur Fielder. The whole gang will be there to sip, relax, and listen; so be sure to see Mrs. Duncan in Craft, Room 324, to reserve a table with your friends...
...late, cold night the galloping gang comes upon a camp of three sleeping men, binds and questions them. Their answers are unsatisfactory. Some of the posse, including the two cattle men, vote futilely against immediate hanging. One of the prisoners prays; another writes a letter; a third, trying to escape, is hobbled by a sharpshooter's bullet. With a borrowed knife he extracts the bullet from his leg. Then they are strung up from the backs of horses, with the brave, right-thinking Confederate major forcing his son to whip one of the animals out from under them. At.dawn...
...Communist campaign progressed nicely until last week, when the B.O.M. Club suddenly gave the New York World-Telegram the club's-eye view of the gang-up. The club revealed, for instance, that its waggish editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...