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...self-appointed, harebrained attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm from his Netherlands retreat. Censured by General John J. Pershing. they swore among themselves not to tell their story for 15 years. Three weeks ago the Saturday Evening Post featured their escapade as told to Truman Hudson Alexander, veteran Nashville Teunessean columnist who had diligently tried since 1934 to ferret out the story...
Last week the Tennessean's Alexander revealed that three of the original kidnappers, now Tennessee businessmen, without consulting their five companions, broke their 18-year silence only to help Columnist Alexander raise money for expensive operations to save 12-year-old Truman Jr., an infantile paralysis victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning...
...SUPPORT THE NO. 1 U. S. NEWSPAPER'S REPUTATION. TIMES'S NEWSHAWKS DENNY AND DURANTY ARE ON EQUAL FOOTING. DENNY MOSCOW CORRESPONDENT SINCE 1934; DURANTY 1921 TO 1934, LATER PINCH-HITTING WHEN DENNY ABSENT, EYE-WITNESSING, VACATIONING, FRONT PAGING. TIME'S OPINION DENNY "CAREFUL, FRANK." COLUMNIST BROUN'S OPINION DURANTY "EDITORIALIGHT DISGUISED AS NEWS-HAWK." DURANTY OPINION DURANTY "FACTSEEKER BEHIND FACTS." DURANTY OPINION TIME "ACE PUNGENT NEWS-PEPPER, NOW ACCUSED RE-MISSWARD SALT OF TRUTH...
...Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora." The citation is as apt and as moral as the quotation itself, but I must blush for your translation-"more sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful." Such a rendition assumes that Pliny wrote in the manner of a modern encyclopaedic general and columnist who is both ribald and biblical, and that the Latin word "certe" had assumed new meaning since the birth of Christ. . . . The Romans swore in a different way, invoking Hercules, Castor, or Pollux most frequently. . . . SYDNEY J. MEHLMAN Brooklyn...
Contrite, Columnist Paris explained that a printer had mistaken...