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...steps of Randolph Hall, where in the drizzling rain they patiently waited for the "encounter" which Lampoon editors had promised, and to which CRIMSON men had courteously been invited. After some delay, caused by the jesters' belief that there were not sufficient reporters in the neighborhood to warrant an assault, the fracas was finally commenced and carried out to everyone's satisfaction...
While most of the difficulties concerned were solved by the University's announcement, two still remain: in the first place, no immediate action has been taken in accordance with the Commissioner's warning; in the second place, it is possible that the death warrant may be retracted if other dormitories are crowded next year. Both of these conditions should be rectified at once; there is no excuse for not removing the fire hazard, and the only excuse for not making the condemnation final and independent of crowding elsewhere, is the precedent set by the University's general noncommital policy...
...planes in trials, Italy did not enter the 1931 Schneider trophy race which England won at 407 m.p.h. Since then the three surviving members of her team kept pegging away at that record. Two-Captain Berrini and Lieut. Neri-died trying to beat it. Last week the last member. Warrant Officer Francesco Agello, whipped a Macchi 72 seaplane over the measured course at Lake Garda on the eastern border of Lombardy. Timing cameras recorded his average speed unofficially at 423.7 m.p.h...
...gathered the "true blue incorruptibles" of Communism. Last month by blind chance the Ogpu discovered that Konar was on too excellent terms with "a prominent foreign diplomat." When police came for him, he told them he need only telephone Ogpu headquarters. They showed him the Ogpu signature on the warrant and he buried his head in his hands. On trial, he admitted he was Polashchuk. He admitted Konar-Polash-chuk had been selling out Russia to Poland for 13 years. He admitted his "brother" was a brother-agent. He admitted he had deliberately mismanaged grain collections to lower the grain...
During the World War I was a warrant officer with the 32nd Division, U. S. A. and on the drive through Chateau Thierry . . . I was billeted in a shell-torn building. During the night I slept on a pile of strewn papers in the middle of the floor of a room in this building and in the morning picked up an attractive document written on parchment and in old French script, merely as a souvenir...