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Kidnaping. Meanwhile the bandit leader had ordered Joseph Ruff and the Zahlers back into their car. "This is the man we want!" he said pointing to Mr. Rosenthal, who stood shivering in the rain, clad only in a thin summer suit...
Near Vicam, Sonora, the Yaqui, 2,000 strong, besieged the train at 4 a. m. with many a war-whoop. Leaping pajama-clad from his berth, General Obregon personally directed and encouraged his soldiers as they sniped at the Yaqui from behind the drawn blinds of the sleeping cars. For 17 hours the siege continued. At last a portentous puffing was heard. A troop train sent by President Calles to rescue his friend, Ex-President Obregon, steamed up, commanded by Generals Bernal and Montano. Soon the Yaqui fled. General Obregon, his equanimity unruffled, slept that night at his extensive rancho...
...tickets to multifarious musical comedies and plays of the "Pigs" variety. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose! Boston is not a town where the theatre thrives. People here are evidently content with the bromides of the usual Boston musical comedy and the rapid evolutions of legs clad in cheese cloth...
Thirty South African college youths, track athletes all, raced for diamonds last week. Ungallant they raced against 120 women, two expectant of motherhood, most clad in running skirts in one piece bathing suits. Raced also some 15,000 professional diamond prospectors. At the crack of a South African police rifle they strained legs, lungs, hearts, in a wild scramble to stake out claims in a newly opened sector of the Transvaal diamond district...
Pitch-soaked torches roared high one night last week in the public courtyard of the Central Prison at Angora, A Death-lured crowd, chattering expectantly, hushed as four tripod gallows were erected. Eerie as ghosts in the flickering light, four white-clad condemned men paced silently from their cells...