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...walking along Quincy St. with one foot in the gutter and one on the curb stone. His hat was gray and somewhat battered. His coat was hanging loose and unbuttoned. He seemed to count his steps as he climbed and sank at each irregular stride...
Same year Surveyor Hulbert sank his first shaft, last week's Saunders Medalist was born to a miner in Ontario. Brought to the Michigan Copper Country in infancy, James MacNaughton started work at 11, carrying water on the C. & H. coal docks, was later a coal-weigher, then a switchman. He attended University of Michigan, went back to C. & H. a white-collar engineer. For ten years he managed Michigan's richest iron mine, returned once more to C. & H. 33 years ago and has never left it since, rising by traditional stages to the presidency...
...religious of a Spanish monastery presented a unicorn horn in a handsome leather case to the new Pope, Gregory XIV, who was in feeble health. Next year the Pope sank so alarmingly that it was gravely decided to administer the powdered tip of the horn. Despite this strong medicine, or perhaps because of it, the Pope died. In 1909 the horn, minus tip and plus a few worm holes, was brought to light and sold to a man in Rome, who later sold it to a U. S. collector, who still later gave it to Manhattan's American Museum...
...nimble-witted money changers admitted that it was the worst day since the dollar was devalued a year ago. A frenzied scramble sent the dollar soaring in terms of francs, guilders, sterling, yen, and at one time it sold nearly 3? above the gold franc parity. The pound sank to $4.83½, lowest price since November 1933. Bids for gold bloc currencies practically vanished. Wild flew reports that trade contracts were being canceled right & left, and for several hours the whole foreign exchange market was completely demoralized...
Harvard trailed 11 to 9 at the half; Harvard held a precarious, one point lead, 18 to 17, with two minutes to play, when Boys went off and sank two field goals and a free throw before the gun sounded...