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...country Congregationalist preacher, Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 39, grew up on a Neponset farm, left the University of Illinois during the War to join the Marines. At Belleau Wood he captured single-handed 27 Germans in a machine-gun nest, was later severely wounded, returned to the U. S. as a first lieutenant with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre, the American Navy Medal. In 1926 he jumped from law school into State's Attorney Crowe's office as assistant prosecutor, curried favor among good Government groups by his fearless campaign against Chicago kidnappers, bombers, murderers...
With President Conant speaking at the Tercentenary meeting at Sanders next Friday, consternation was great at the discovery of a fullfledged nest in the southeast wall and a host of winged inmates taking their morning flyer around the rostrum. Muddled maintenance men had to rip up a section of the plaster and lathing before the conquest...
...eggs were found when men from the Fire Station across the road were putting up an antenna for a new radio set. Two were reposing in an ancient nest, another lay broken on a balustrade below, all being 211 feet above the pavement. Ornithology may be permanently expanded as a science by the discovery...
...more spectacular has been the jump in shares of British shipyards, recently down & out, now all set to build warboats. The disgusted Daily Herald, after first severely warning its Labor readers that they will probably lose their shirts if they jump into the market now, tantalizingly explained that a nest egg of $2,500 invested one year ago in three ship-building and two aircraft stocks would today have become a tidy little fortune...
Still, may the Harvard Athletic Association in future years make enough money itself to deal with band traveling expenses! But that is on the knees of the gods, another egg in the nest of Recovery...