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...safety's sake, Captain Charles R. Pilcher of the liner Rangitoto offered to lower a lifeboat when he learned that a passenger, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, 63, Archbishop of Canterbury, wanted to go ashore in Panama and planned to leave the ship via the jouncing boarding ladder. The sure-footed prelate declined the lifeboat, and when he learned that the captain was partially worried about the ship's safety record, dashed off a limerick for the occasion...
That 87-year-old Baron Grantley, oldest member of the House of Lords, had committed adultery was not easy for divorce court Justice Gonne Pilcher to believe. But a Piccadilly plaintiff got his divorce and damages, after his full-fashioned wife Pauline admitted in court it was all true. The Baron is a descendant of Georgian dramatist Richard Brinsley (The School for Scandal) Sheridan...
...Beecher 1M, of Wichita, Kan.; L. S. Davis 3M, of Dallas, Tex.; C. W. Steele 2M, of Chillicothe, Mo.; De Lamar Student Research Fellowships. Champ Lyons 2M, of Mobile, Ala., and L. S. Pilcher, 2d, 3M, of Montclair, N. J.; James Jackson Cabot Fellowships. Hugh Montgomery 3M, of Woods Hole; George Cheyne Shattuck Memorial Fellowship. W. P. Reed 3M, of Milwaukee, Wis.; John Ware Memorial Fellowship. E. R. Lehnherr...
...course, they err. Señor Santos-Dumont was flying dirigibles when Otto Lilienthal in Germany, Percy Pilcher in England, Samuel Pierpont Langley, the Wrights and Octave Chanute in the U. S. were perfecting airplane wings and gliding with them, when the Langley motored plane tried to fly in 1903 and the Wright motor plane actually did fly a couple of months later. Alberto Santos-Dumont did not fly a plane until...
There will be meeting for all candidates for Second Assistant Managers of Debating in Stoughton 27 at 1.05 o'clock today it was announced by Manager L. S. Pilcher '26 yesterday. The competition will be short one ending with the Yale debate on March 27, before the start of the competition will automatically become Treasurer of the Debating Council and will become Manager in his Senior year...