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Although the varsity hockey team did not win the championship in the R.P.I. invitation tournament held at Troy, N.Y., on December 27, 28, and 29, the fourth-seeded Crimson still came back with a winning record for the vacation play. After losing to unneeded R.P.I. in the opener, 6 to 2. Cooney Welland's boys took the consolation title by beating Williams, 13 to 0, and Dartmouth, 2 to 1, a overtime. Brown won the tourney...
Another Caudle chum was Troy Whitehead, a Charlotte machinery manufacturer, whose private plane flew Caudle to Florida twice for deep-sea fishing. Once, Caudle got up the whole party, which included Charles Oliphant, counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. While these pleasant jaunts were going on, the U.S. was investigating Whitehead's tax status. Caudle said he had just a "faint recollection" that he might have telephoned Oliphant about removing a $40,000 tax lien the U.S. had against Whitehead's plant. That would have been "the most normal thing" to do, he said, since he talked...
Dream & Fulfillment. The most resounding personality in Ceram's book is that of Heinrich Schliemann. His career began when he was only seven, with a prophecy: "When I am big," he told his father, "I shall go to Greece and find Troy and the King's treasure." Herr Schliemann laughed, but Heinrich never forgot his resolve. He did, however, take time to learn English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Polish, Latin, Greek and Arabic, and to become a millionaire in the dyestuffs business...
...Homer's descriptions, Schliemann chose the mound of Hissarlik as the place to start digging. And the digging proved the professionals wrong, the amateur right-almost too right, for instead of one city, Schliemann found nine within the mound, one on top of the other. Which one was Troy...
Schliemann was convinced that Troy was the third city from the bottom, because there he found the trove of golden ornaments which he believed to be Priam's treasure, but later scholars think he was wrong, and that Priam's city was the third from...