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...remained to be added by the incoming class. At the scrimmage of the first and second teams on Soldiers Field during the afternoon many spectators came and went Scores of undergraduates, free for a few more days from the exactions of classes and college routine, were on hand in search of amusement. It came, from an unexpected quarter...
...next afternoon police raided a barber shop in Manhattan's Chinatown. They rushed up the stairs and heard feet pattering on the roof. They opened the hatch and saw no one. They went out on the roof to search and a fusillade of shots fell about them from a roof across the streets. Forty shots were fired but no one was hurt. In a safe below they found ten new automatics, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and six steel vests. Henry Moy, his brother Frank and other prominent On Leongs stood across the street watching the proceedings...
...fortnight ago Boris was reported the near victim of typhus bacilii interlarded by "a suspicious cook" in his dessert. Last April he returned the fire of assassins who intercepted his car near Sofia. Last December he made a "courting tour of Europe, in search of a bride." TIME chronicled these events (Sept. 14 and April...
...seaplane been flying on schedule, it should have been about 200 miles off Hawaii when the message was sent. But no plane had passed the U. S. S. Farragut, stationed 420 miles off. The ships Aroostock and Tanager began to search...
...passed. Apprehension grew. Planes put out from Hawaii. Eighteen destroyers of the line were ordered from Samoa to join in the search, and proceeded "with orderly haste" to do as they were told. That hope was dying became manifest in the furious urgency with which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain...