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...grey-haired Harvard law professor asked his class: "Does anyone have a $5 bill?" When a student waved one aloft, Professor William Lloyd Prosser beckoned him down front, transferred the money with a flourish to his own wallet. Then he folded his hands across his belly and smiled broadly at Second-Year Student William Poindexter. The class snickered. Poindexter blushed...
...doctrine of total nihilism. Rejecting both traditional Christian and humanist values, he expressed the kind of diseased fascination with violence that led Germany's rootless youth into the Führer's ranks. "All Freedom, all Greatness, all Culture," he wrote, "are only maintained and spread aloft by wars...
...Dawson Springs, Ky., Senator Alben W. Barkley very nearly missed reaching his 70th birthday next fortnight: the auto he was riding in was struck by another on a bridge. The other plunged 35 feet, injuring the driver's head; Barkley's car stayed aloft, with the Senator inside, uninjured but shaken...
Fallen Angel. In Seattle, absent-minded John P. Angel drove his car into a service station, stepped out, discovered too late that he was eight feet aloft on a grease rack...
...behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport Joseph V. Connolly, strung with flowers from bow to stern. While U.S. Thunderbolts from Germany dipped aloft, the Connolly steamed down the Scheldt, its banks lined with thousands of silent Belgians...