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Following the observance of the eclipse, the University will act as host to the International Astronomical Union, in Cambridge, during the week of September 2. An intensive 7-day program has been prepared, which includes excursions to Boston Harbor, the Oak Ridge Station of the Observatory, and Wellesley College. The Observatory expects about 65 foreign delegates and 175 Americans to attend. They will be housed in the Radcliffe dormitories. The annual meeting will close with a general assembly on Friday, September 9, in the Alice Longfellow Hall of Radcliffe College...
...been clubbed to death shortly after being snatched from his crib on the night of March 1. The badly decomposed remains, clad only in a flannel stomach band and an undershirt, lay face down in a shallow depression, possibly a hastily scratched grave. On one side was a tall oak On another was a stump. Through the underbrush 75 ft. back ran the special telephone line strung during the world-wide search. The head showed two fractures a round hole through the right temple. One leg and both hands were missing...
...remains, one report said, he fainted. He asked for a lock of his child's hair. Next afternoon he returned to make an official identification of the remains. Then, as mute housewives watched over their back fences, he came out of the building following some men with a small oak box. He and Col. Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through the past ten agonizing weeks, accompanied the box to Linden, N. J. In a square, grey building with a straight black smokestack cremation took place. The ashes were removed to Englewood where Mrs. Linbergh's widowed mother...
...Lansing, Ill., two men entered the Oak Glen Trust & Savings Bank. One was calm, swart, carried a machinegun. The other, nervous, blond, dapper, carried a pistol. The nervous blond was too embarrassed to take money from the cashier's drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best...
...corner central to Yale's ramified, citified campus, the building rises three neat stories in a Gothic style. Downstairs is a spacious heelers' room papered in old issues of the News, Running around the four walls of this room is a wide work-desk of oak, thick enough to withstand the initial-carving of generations of heelers. Downstairs also are business offices. On staggered levels off the stairs (to save hall space) are editors' rooms and the morgue. Upstairs is a library dominated by Painter Donald M. Campbell Jr.'s portrait of Briton Hadden...