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...November 1, Judge Arthur P. Stone '93, denied issuance by police of a complaint against the magazine in East Cambridge Third District Court, but, at the same time, he labeled the Pontoon "filthy, obscene, and licentious." He gave to the District Attorney the option of dismissing the case or taking Grand Jury action...
...Prohibition got just as cold a shoulder. Arizona defeated a local option proposal; Oregon declined to ban the sale of "promotively advertised" liquor; South Dakota ruled it was all right to serve food and liquor in the same establishment; and Arkansas walloped a measure setting up statewide Prohibition, and making possession of more than a quart of liquor a crime...
While Boudreau was left to his wondering, another baseball headliner settled down with a long contract. At 69, onetime Dodger General Manager Branch Rickey signed a five-year contract (with an option for a five-year renewal) as general manager of the hapless (last place) but profitable (second in league attendance) Pittsburgh Pirates...
...other schools graduates get the alumni magazine by class subscriptions, while at Harvard the option not to subscribe rests with the individual. The Fund Council at the University limits itself to mail appeals which alumni can throw away; elsewhere the money drives use personal solicitation to boost receipts, although this may cause resentment from alumni...
...bitter end. Searching the past from St. Helena, he found a marvelously neat reason for his defeat at Waterloo. He attributed it largely to the stupidity of the Duke of Wellington, who selected a battlefield from which it was impossible to effect a retreat. Hence, Wellington & Co. had no option but to go on holding the field even after they had lost it. "Oh, strange irony of human affairs!" murmurs the exiled logician as he looks back on the blundering British...