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...Eliot is the most desirable House, and still less have ever seen the inside of the Germanic Museum. John Harvard made the front page for the first time in three hundred years, and the College was given some comment in the back part of an issue featuring Dissenters and Prison Athletics. The lower loft front corner of Widener was displayed in all its majestic glory, and a view of a Sophomore on a date with a one year old was included. However, most Harvard men didn't get their pictures...
...Sentenced (in absentia) to death in France for instigating the assassination of King Alexander in Marseille in 1934, Dr. Pavelitch will probably be pardoned. Last week, there was already a movement afoot to free three accomplices, now serving prison terms...
When Kern went into exile, almost a child, he had everything to learn. He learned fast: to live as though he were never going back; to exploit every opportunity ; to pick a lock; to quiet watchdogs; to box; to speak French. He learned also that prison clothes save wear & tear on your own; that a good-looking overcoat, though it puts off benefactors, also puts off police; that trickery, to succeed, must be simple; that the safest places for exiles are churches, museums and police stations; that an exile has three wars to fight, for food, for shelter, and against...
...irresponsibility of the anarchists and turned counter-revolutionary. He spent fifty days in the Petropavlovskaia Fortress, another word for Bastille, for having "attempted to assassinate Lenin." It turned out that what they thought was a pistol shot had only been a tire blowout, but he was kept in prison for good measure. Writing anti-government pamphlets and articles was not a healthy occupation in Russia in 1918, and soon Sorokin found himself sentenced to death. At the last minute he was saved by a combination of luck and the work of a friend who must have put in a good...
...been a lethal morning. Dead lay four men: Prison Guard John Hartye, Patrolman Fagan, Convict Waters, and Convict Miller, who had died of excitement in his hospital...