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...thousand miles away the New York Journal on successive days covered its front page with pictures of: 1) June Robles before the kidnapping; 2) her "coffin prison" in the desert; 3 ) June receiving "a warm kiss from her loving mother"; 4) June examining her school report card. The New York tabloid Mirror ran an interview, headed "TOT TELLS TORTURES." The interview went as follows...
There is small excuse for having bichloride of mercury tablets around the house nowadays as an antiseptic. There is even less excuse for swallowing the deadly blue tablets by accident. Some drug manufacturers make them coffin-shaped. Others put them in bottles with round bottoms or covered with sandpaper. One uses small wooden caskets. The adult who takes bichloride of mercury usually wants to die, is usually successful. But in future he may be thwarted by an antidote reported by Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal of U. S. Public Health Service last fortnight in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...while other students were filing to the chapel, he was on his way to Dick Hall's House infirmary with a heavy cold. The cold became pneumonia. Empyema developed, clogging his lungs. In two weeks students marched once more to Rollins Chapel, for two hours filed past the coffin where Bob Michelet lay beneath the Dartmouth seal...
Widow Kahn and the banker's second son, Musician Roger Wolfe Kahn, were waiting at the door. Mrs. Kahn wept so bitterly when she saw the coffin that she could not bring herself to announce the funeral arrangements. For three days the body lay in the hushed house of many rooms. Through the gloomy light of Manhattan afternoons gleamed the soft faces and figures of the dead man's favorite Botticellis and Rembrandts. On the fourth day the body was taken to the Kahn estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. where for 14 summers Otto Kahn...
Relay--Won by Harvard (Kellogg, Sloane, O'Connor, Miller); second, Exeter (Swan, Coffin, Faweett, Parker). Time...