Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Pittsfield, Mass., a 20-lb. snapping turtle which George B. Maddocks had caught and tied up in the back of his automobile worked its way free, crept over the front seat, snapped George Maddock's leg, causing him to lose control of his car, crash into two other automobiles...
Died. Charles E. Bedford Jr., 30, son of Vice President Bedford of the Vacuum Oil Co.; by his own hand, in a dollar-a-night Brooklyn hotel. When only 19, Bedford came home from the War mentally sick. The same year he stole a car to escape from a physician, went to gaol in Indiana, later to a New York asylum from which he ran away. Ashamed to go home, although his family used every possible persuasion, he wandered, hid himself in crowds, spent the past five years in Brooklyn slums...
...Bretton Woods, N. H., Miss Marjorie McManamy lost control of her car when a squirrel jumped into her lap. The car was wrecked, Miss McManamy suffered facial abrasions...
...Benton Harbor, Mich., J. E. Ricker Jr. lost control of his car when the family cat jumped into his lap. He was injured, his mother was killed...
...more ardent interests. He became famous as one of the best auction-bridge players in the world, gave his name to a convention of bidding (TIME, Sept. 30), and is largely responsible for the present vogue of contract bridge. When automobiling was a sport he had the fastest car in Newport; when planes became practical he had the most elaborate one in the U. S. One day he left his yacht during a New York Yacht Club cruise, flew from Newport to Southampton to play 18 holes of golf, flew to a Harvard-Yale baseball game and to Poughkeepsie...