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Outstanding for Pat Johnson's outfit was Louis Ach who won a gruelling decision from Morgan Berthrong and Captain Johnnie Harkness who flattenedd out Philip Voorhees of Penn but was unable to pin his shoulders in the last thirty seconds...
...corner not to go around. . . . The Rebels were on the floor below us, firing upward, while Loyalists shot down or dropped hand grenades. . . . Once a song floated upward amazingly from that doomed place below. A soldier next to me heard it just as he was about to draw the pin of a grenade. 'They're singing!' he said in a stupefied tone...
...superstitition. rushed to stake on chances opposite to those picked by Edward, figuring "Lucky at love, unlucky at cards." They lost heavily to the bank, from which His Royal Highness won a total for the evening of $40. Next day he paid $20,000 for a flower-shaped emerald pin, surrounded by diamonds, picked out for the Duchess of Windsor who does not gamble...
...founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for '"promoting useful knowledge," concern almost every kind of science. Preoccupation of the American Physical Society, founded in 1899, is straightforward physics, let the philosophical chips fall where they may; but physics may include anything from the electrical conductivity of a safety pin to the fringes of the universe. Last week the American Philosophical Society assembled in Philadelphia and the American Physical Society convened in Chicago. Noteworthy topics discussed at the two meetings...
With a record of five wins, one tie, and one defeat, Kirkland won the title for the second straight year. Only Winthrop was able to pin a defeat on Bernie White's Deacons, and even that came after the title was clinched. Lowell House managed to tie last year's champions early in the season...