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...Auroras are led by wiry little Banker Seymour Horace ("Shorty'') Knox, of Buffalo's East Aurora Polo Club. There were no other Buffalonians on his team last week. His back was large, smiling Elmer J. Boeseke Jr. of California. Between Knox at No. 1 and Boeseke were two Long Islanders, Jimmy Mills and Elbridge ("Ebby") Gerry...
...Some types of the Aurora interfere badly with radio. For ten days at a stretch the two expeditions in Greenland could not raise each other...
...lashed. At San Diego, Calif., onetime President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico received two telephone calls demanding $50,000 on pain of being kidnapped. A 42-year-old poultryman named Patrick Fallon was taken from a farm at Bridgewater, Mass. Frederick J. Persons, 16, son of an East Aurora, N. Y. bank president, told how he had run away from two men who tried to snatch him on a dark street. In Atlanta, President John K. Ottley of the First National Bank identified two boys who had seized, later released him fortnight ago on his way to work (TIME, July...
Dapper, florid Ed Hill, whose wife and newspaper cronies call him "Bill." is distinctly of the Frank Ward O'Malley school of news reporting. Born 48 years ago in Aurora, Ind., he attended University of Indiana where his English professor would emphasize examples of journalism by pointing to the New York Sun. Hill determined to get a job on the Sun and, after pestering the city editor for weeks he finally did get a "temporary"' assignment, which lasted 22 years...
Long sinuous flashes of lightning flitted through the sky. Aurora struggled to obliterate the darkness which had found a region conducive to its moodiness. Sparks and ashes emerged from a small crater while the inhabitants of Ponguelano scurried from alleys going toward the large cellar which Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident...