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...active police became still more active, discovered a third bomb, in- tended to blow up the royal train as it passed through a tunnel on its return journey to Madrid. Fourteen arrests were made, but each of the prisoners denied all knowledge of the plot...
Little more than 338 years after the execution of Mary Queen of Scots** at Fotheringhay Castle, Ainsworth Mitchell, Home Office criminologist, came to the conclusion that the letters written to Babington expressing approval of a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth were not written by Mary but by her secretary and betrayer, William Maitland of Lethington...
Friedmann, who seems not to have been connected with the plot, but who certainly knew of it and made no attempt to warn the authorities, alone met his fate with resolution. To the last, he declared his innocence, stated that he was being hanged because he was a Communist conspirator...
...intending to compete have been asked to submit their names to W. S. Martin '26 at 13 Randolph Hall before next Monday. They will be expected to work on their plays during the summer, and submit a scenario of the plot on their return to Cambridge next fall. The authors of the best scenarios will then be required to expand their outlines into full musical comedy books...
...Mogul. There is probably a wide public for the type of entertainment in which an Irish tenor sends the show out for recess every now and then and sings a couple of ballads. This one even takes time to tell a funny story when the plot begins to lag. Fiske O'Hara is his name. In this play, by De Witt Newing, he is not a poor Irish lad arriving in this country but a full blown business man. The notion of Elbert Gary suddenly holding up a conference of the Steel Corporation to sing about shamrocks is interesting...