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...rainy night last week in Manhattan, Emil Nizich, 26, dock worker and small-time racketeer, was on his way to a gym for a game of basketball. He was shot three times from behind, left dead in the gutter. The killer made his getaway. An hour and a half later, a few blocks away, young Joseph Moran was checking the unloading of a ten-ton truck. A stranger stepped in out of the rain. "Who's Joe Moran around here?" he asked. "That's me," said Moran cheerfully. The stranger shot three times, killed Moran...
Jack Barnaby's Varsity A squash team, having returned from a successful weekend trip, meets the Union Boat Club at Boston today. Saturday the squad plays host to Amherst at the Hemenway Gym...
After dinner the quartet went on to Northwestern College (Lutheran), where nearly all the 150 students and 550 people from the town and countryside sat in the gym, ranged about the basketball court. In evening dress the Pro Arte men wound up a staircase from the dressing rooms, bowed gravely, sat down on a platform under a basketball goal. They played Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms. They were applauded con brio. As the audience filed out, many were heard to praise the Pro Arte Quartet, and to vow that the 50? admission was cheap: the sponsors (the college and Watertown...
...opening game is with M. I. T. in Hangar Gym next Friday night. The Techmen have another good club and will be doubly tough on their own floor...
Same time, U. S. correspondents in Germany were encouraged to report the massing, by night and in large numbers, of German troops on the Continent facing England, and in Norway, where they were "practicing landings." Pictures of Germans practicing rooftop exercises on a sort of huge "jungle gym" were released in the U. S. On the other side of the Channel the hand of General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, the British Army's new Commander in Chief (who in his time speared a wolf from the saddle), was seen in a new land-defense move made by Britain. Ripped...