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A strict curb will be placed on sabbatical leaves for school teachers in September under new regulations approved by the Board of Superintendents and now being studied by the law committee of the Board of Education.
BOSTON, March 15. -- Two electric shocks have been administered to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts within the last ten days. The one issued from an extraordinary meeting of citizens of Greater Boston, called to give expression to an aroused public opinion, caused by what the chairman described as a "real emergence" of an "orgy of crime which menaces our homes and families and challenges our law-enforcement personnel and channels throughout the Commonwealth."
A non-resident goat from Hastings-on-the-Hudson won out over twenty-three nervous but native competitors yesterday in the Bock Beer Beauty Contest in Central Park. The other goats had citizenship, but Pretzels had beauty, which overleaps the barriers of time, space and nationality.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 17. -- Pitching of a superior sort compared to what they have been getting recently fell to the lot of the Giants today, but that winning touch of the world's champions was slightly out of hand.
1934Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (died 1983)[†]
Roy Clifford Chapman was an English professional football player and manager. He was the father of former Arsenal and Leeds United striker Lee Chapman.
1934Charley Pride, American country music singer and musician (died 2020)[†]
Charley Frank Pride was an American country singer and baseball player. Beginning his career as a Negro league baseball player in the early-1950s, he later pursued a career in country music, becoming the genre's first black superstar.