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Last week the gruesome package arrived at Ithaca. Scientists bore it to their laboratory. Dr. James W. Papez, Secretary of the Association, began a preliminary study of the specimen...
...first wife, nee Cathleen Neilson, divorced him in 1919. In 1923 he married Miss Gloria Morgan, daughter of Consul-General Harry Hayes Morgan; last year she bore him a daughter. Though still relatively a young man, the world in which he spent his money with such debonair magnificence and through which he raced in his roaring automobiles has largely vanished; even the scenes of his gayeties are being removed. Delmonico's, where he gave numerous dinners, recently closed its doors; Madison Square Garden, at whose ringside his plump beetling face often brooded, has been pulled down...
Next morning he was met by President DAlvear and whisked away in an official automobile to the naval school, while crowds skipped away from under the car's wheels as it bore down upon them. The official party boarded the yacht Adhara and steamed through the traffic of the port, while for 30 minutes every vessel in the harbor screamed its siren in delight. A landing was made at La Blanco, Frigorifico, a great "meat factory...
...colonial costume rode horseback. Three girls in colonial costume rode in a carriage. One white-robed marcher waved a flag and shouted to spectators; his face much resembled that of Charles Evans Hughes. One contingent bore a banner : "If you want to know what God thinks of us, read Revelations, 7th chapter, 9th to 17th verses...
Specimen Descriptions. "Big Boy" Morgan (hero) : "In years, he was somewhere between 25 and 30, but with a decidedly boyish look on his smooth, deeply tanned face. Standing well over six feet, his back was straight, his shoulders broad, and he bore himself with that air of strength and confidence best described by the good and familiar 'ready for either a fight or a frolic.' It was not at all difficult to guess that he was a great favorite among his fellows...