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...sooner did Prince Carol arrive in Nice than M. Titulescu, desiring to avoid all contact with him, moved himself and suite across the border from French Mentone to nearby Italian San Remo. Good natured Dr. Stresemann then kept the negotiations going by motoring back and forth between these neighboring towns. Prince Carol, not provided with papers permitting him to enter Italy, could not and possibly did not desire to make contact with the Foreign Minister of the Rumanian Government with which he is at odds...
...Bird had been refused a pilot's license by the San Diego Air Control Board. His home-made monoplane had also been pronounced unfit to fly. Yet last week he took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...
...Avoid writing a story in a way to give factitious interest to something which, while true, is relatively unimportant. All 'golddiggers' who break into the news are not 'former members of the Follies'; a man with a couple of hundred dollars on his person is not necessarily 'reputed to be wealthy'; . . . an automobile used either in the perpetration of a crime or in the pursuit of the criminal is not always a 'high-powered...
...Avoid the word 'Romanism' when 'Catholicism' is intended...
...avoid confusion in assigning the cause of death in liquor-drinking cases, it is sufficient to state that the liquor contained poisonous alcohol...