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Watson, whose findings are reported in the astronomy magazine "Telescope" further believes that Eros whirls about end over end, sometimes showing the earth a large side and then turning its other cheek and displaying a small end. This accounts for its erratic changes of light which have long baffled astronomers...
...died last month at the age of 90 (TIME, April 12). One of the Lincoln family's few precious objects which had not already been given to the Government was the Healy portrait of Lincoln, which showed him, nearly lifesize, seated with legs crossed, one finger along his cheek, the other hand clutching the chair arm. Robert Todd Lincoln, who became Secretary of War, Minister to the Court of St. James and president of Pullman Co., thought this the best likeness of his father ever painted. In her will, Mrs. Lincoln provided that the picture should remain in possession...
Leaning from the second-story porch of his Cleveland home to repair a flower box. famed Baseball Outfielder Tris Speaker 'Cleveland Indians), 48, now a wholesale liquor dealer, plunged headfirst to the ground when the railing collapsed, fractured his arm, slashed his cheek, received serious internal injuries...
...headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland, one of his officers was killed, two were badly wounded and Burton got a spear through his cheek...
...last few years that I have become good, although, as yet, limited in scope." What he thinks of himself as a writer he modestly leaves between the lines. He avers that Cavalcade, his most successful play, was written "straight"-not, as often rumored, "with my tongue in my cheek, in bed, probably wearing a silk dressing-gown and shaking with cynical laughter." Like Coward's plays, Present Indicative strikes many a theatrically effective note of frankness. When he was a child-actor in London he used to steal waitresses' fourpenny tips to eke out his meagre lunches...