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...Weinstock went back he could not say, except that perhaps it was simply because he was tired of running and had decided that, live or die, he might as well be home. When he woke up the next morning, he found the ghetto in turmoil, overflowing with hundreds of supposed Jews who had been driven in from the countryside. Peasants who "knew as much about Jewry as a Polynesian knows about the Vatican" camped in other people's houses and in the streets...
...Lowell-Winthrop game was played as a preliminary to the Varsity meeting with Cornell before a sizable crowd. The Puritans, sparked by center Ted Nelson, the tallest man in intramural basketball, jumped away to an early lead, which they maintained until the last ten minutes. The Lowell woke up. Snappy fast breaks, a Bellboy specialty, brought them closer and closer, and finally they went ahead on the layups and drive-ins of Goldie Goldsmith. It was the fourth straight win for Lowell, the second which they had to come from behind to win, and the third loss in four games...
Early Saturday morning Shanghai woke to the scream of ambulances carrying the injured to hospitals. Along Shanghai's waterfront, which the Kiangya had left only the afternoon before, hearses bearing bodies picked their way through a neverending stream of coolies pushing carts piled high with crates, boxes, suitcases of still more refugees frantically evacuating their belongings and fleeing the city...
...disappointments. One of the biggest was Somerset Maugham's refusal to let her play Sadie Thompson in Rain in 1925. * She was so depressed by losing the part that she cast herself in the role of a would-be suicide and swallowed a handful of aspirins ; but she woke up next morning feeling better than she had for a long time. Another big disappointment, years later, was not getting the lead in Gone With the Wind...
Friends of Cross reported he had mailed the dynamite and firing caps to Cambridge from Oregon, where he worked as a logging blaster last summer. They said he had kept it in a chest in his room. Two weeks ago, the sources disclosed. Cross woke up Winthrop House sloepers by blowing up six sticks of his stock with a four-minute fuse and caps...