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...Dubois' Bridge, Darlington County, S. C. When Shannon saluted Cash, the latter was looking at his wife's photograph and did not see or return the salute. At the count of one, Shannon fired and Cash felt a hot blow on his cheek—the sand kicked up by Shannon's bullet. At the count of two, Cash fired, saw a white spot against Shannon's black coat precisely where he had aimed, but Shannon stood firm. Cash was beginning to think he had been cheated when Shannon stepped forward, turned, staggered, fell dead. Around these facts...
...spot on the Atlantic 47 mi. west of Fastnet Light, off the tip of southern Ireland, three men were hurrying last week. They had no rendezvous. It was sheer luck that when Louis T. Reichers set his crippled monoplane down in a sea whipped up by a nasty blow, Captain George Fried of the S. S. Roosevelt, famed for his North Atlantic rescues, was there with his equally famed Chief Officer Harry Manning to send overside in a lifeboat. Chief Officer Manning yanked Pilot Reichers out of his foundering plane, unharmed save for a broken nose, a lacerated face. After...
Visiting Howard Coffin at Sea Island Beach, Ga. Campaigner McAdoo McAdoodled: "The first real test of strength has been settled. . . . This not only makes Garner a formidable contestant for the presidential nomination but it is a serious and perhaps irreparable blow to the Roosevelt candidacy...
...Catholic Church is a tremendously serious organization. . . . You cannot blow up the rich, laugh at the bankers ... or utter demagogic talk to the poor in the name of the Church which is for rich and poor alike. "This Sunday afternoon radio address has been stopped for the season. I am glad, as it had gone a little...
...lost their son. Nothing could be better than Mr. Barrymore as the shaky, sweet-natured old father, and Miss Carter as the weary and bewildered little wife is genuinely pathetic and touching. Whether she stands at her son's grave, a tiny figure in black, while the autumn leaves blow by, or whether she smiles uncertainly and hopefully at her new son, she achieves an authentic effect of pathos. Throughout the picture, the emotions are most neatly played upon without loss of good taste. You will remember the sweetness and genuineness of this old German couple...