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...Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad of National Guardsmen used clubs to keep the spectators in the infield under control. The spectators threw chairs at the guardsmen...
Each man who was elected is prominent in his class. Johnson, who is a letter man on the track team, recently threw the javelin for a new record. Brown, the elected chairman of Eliot House, has been active in House affairs for the last two years and has held the post of secretary and treasurer in his House...
...effort to sift out his best eight men Coach Charlie Whiteside threw a bombshell into the midst of the 24 sweepswingers who gathered yesterday in the Nowell for the Monday row after the second consecutive defeat of the season by completely splitting up his Varsity crews...
...puppet President throughout has been that great Polish scientist, Professor Ignatz Moscicki. When the old "Walrus" was wheezing with asthma last year, the President invented a device for pepping up the air breathed by the Dictator in his suburban Belvidere Palace. Last week the grim old Marshal threw a cordon of his fanatically loyal troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige of Polish democratic institutions...
...Salem, Ohio, the fire department threw so much water on a fire in the upper stories of a house that it drowned 2-year-old Jane Elizabeth Woods cowering in the basement...