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Repub factional fights in 4 counties; primary results uncertain
Mrs. Damon Runyon's fast filly, Angelic, captured the twenty-second running of the $2,500 added Youthful Stakes at Jamaica yesterday, after a serious spill had marred the running of the race and caused several of the racers to lose ground.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 12. -- To the accompaniment of warm Scottish cheers for a great team of sportsmen, they handed the Walker Cup to Captain Francis Ouimet's men tonight to take back to the United States.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott; The Chinese: Their History and Culture
LAURENCE SCHWAB, producer, yachtsman and publisher, returned a bit back from his Florida haunts. Cornered in his office the other day, he gave the following assorted information:
1934Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and academic (died 2010)[†]
Ehud Netzer was an Israeli architect, archaeologist and educator, known for his extensive excavations at Herodium, where in 2007 he found and identified the tomb of Herod the Great; and the discovery of a structure defined by Netzer as a synagogue, which, if true would be the oldest one ever found.