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Unfortunately, the wit of this former CRIMSON managing editor tends to minimize the impact of the tragedy. Since everybody is sitting cares when the sheriff, Zenoch McCalla, commits suicide...
...McCalla's election constituted a triumph for the virtuous, "dry," citizens of Corallis, who preach lasting welfare on John Barleycorn, but used to sneak out behind the shed every once in a while anyway. Undoubtedly, the most preached- against man in the county is Angelo Bonatura, who has the local monopoly in the illicit liquor trade, a monopoly that has taken him eight years and an artful homicide to complete...
...early in his career. Angelo had decided that it would be more economical to own the sheriff, rather than to keep buying him off. So he went out and elected him a sheriff, Turk by name. Although Turk's electoral defeat bothered Angelo, his own failure to buy off McCalla rankled much more. Most around chuckling. No one really of the book deals with his attempts to remove or subordinate the new sheriff and resume his formerly lucrative operations...
...that after the proper ceremonies had been performed by the Ibis, the Slave would be instructed to admit five new members to the Sanctum. To the Art and Literary department the board elected Langley Carleton Keyes '24, of Winchester; Stephen Olin Dows '26, of Rhinebeck, N. Y.; and Robert McCalla English '26, of Brookline. To the Business Department, Randolph Harrison Dyer '26 and Frederick Benjamin Swarts '26, both of St. Louis, Mo., and Francis William Gerhart '25, of Kansas City, Mo., were elected...
...result of a five weeks' competition LeBaron Russell Barker Jr. of Plymouth has been appointed a sub-chairman of the Photographic Committee of the Freshman Red Book. The following men were elected to the board; Benjamin Brewster of Dedham; Chester Linwood Dane of New York, N. Y.; Robert McCalla English of Brookline; William Osgood Field of Lenox; Robert Martin Perry Kennard of Newton; Harding Carruth Newman of Concord; Alvan George Smith of Medford; Frederick Benjamin Swarts of St. Louis, Mo.; Reginald Franklin Conroy Vance of Fredericksburg. Va.; Austen Wood of Worcester...