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...Brooklyn, N. Y. one day last month Death rounded out 18 years of solitude in her two-story house for 79-year-old Spinster Louisa Herle. When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with...
...believed unlikely that Harvard would go outside of its present staff of coaches in the search for a successor to Casey, Harry Kipke of Michigan was suggested, as was Lou Little, but both of these proposals were considered by experts to be outside chances...
...Committee decides to follow the first possible choice--that of going outside of its coaching staff in a search for a head coach it will mean an entirely reorganized set-up, from the lowliest Freshman line coach to the very top. No self-respecting and capable coach would accept the position at Harvard without this concession. It would mean that the Committee could expect to have little voice in the matter of the choice of assistant coaches. It would present the possibility of a coach--perhaps Freshman coach, or perhaps Jayvee--who was ill-adapted to the Harvard attitude toward...
...trio landed on Charles Island. They were: 1) a lean fanatical young woman known as the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehr-born, latterly of Vienna and Paris; 2) Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, her small, weak, tuberculous lover; 3) Robert Philippson, also a German and their common friend. In their search for an island paradise in the Pacific they had come upon Charles Island only to find it already occupied by two other romantic German couples. Arthur Wittmer and his wife, Margaret Walbrol, practicing nudists, lived with their two children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl Ritter and Frau Dore...
...Oliver, class of 1724 and later Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which could be brought to light by careful search. The lighting was of course by candlelight, and in 1745 we find bills for "1 Doz. Tin Candlesticks" and "2 Wooden Screws for standing part of said Candlesticks...