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After winning its opening engagement with the Pilgrim Club, St. Andrews lost to Long Island University and to Queens. The team is made up largely of former Princeton and Yale rugby players. Captain Campbell Groel, a Nassau graduate, was an outstanding member of the All-New York and All-Eastern squads that met Cambridge...
...GREAT A MAN-David Pilgrim- Harpers...
Central character of the novel is Napoleon. Heroine is his Polish mistress, 20-year-old, blonde, serious-minded Marie Walewska. By rubberizing history, pseudonymous English Author Pilgrim contrives a cinematic tale based on the ten months which marked the height of Napoleon's career, the beginning of his skid toward Waterloo as a result of his Spanish campaign...
...Montpellier, France toward the close of the 13th Century was born one Roch, son of the town's wealthy governor. Orphaned, Roch gave away his fortune, set out for Rome as a mendicant pilgrim. In town after town on the way, plagues miraculously disappeared upon his advent. But in Piacenza he fell ill himself, was expelled to a forest where he would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe...
...Providence 50?. When Financiers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk got their powerful hands on the line, competition turned from rates to magnificence. Staircases became grander, chandeliers larger and more glittering, furnishings and decorations more sumptuous. In 1883 appeared their first iron-hull vessel, the Pilgrim, which carried 675 passengers. It was taken for granted that anyone would sleep better in a Fall River berth than in his own bed. Food was good and plentiful...