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...Francisco, Leo V. Dowling slashed his wrists and throat, but failed to commit suicide. Recovering in a hospital he received a large horseshoe of flowers with a card on which was written: ''Better luck next time." Leo V. Dowling gasped, died...
...Author. Conrad Potter Aiken. 42, shares some obvious likenesses with his hero: son of a doctor, he was born in Savannah, Ga., has lived abroad, has sandy hair. When he was 11, Aiken saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. He was Class Poet (1911) at Harvard, among a generation that included Poets Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected...
...names ceased in 1912. Where is the respect for the ancestors, the elders, and why has the worthy practice been permitted to lapse at this, of all times, when Freshmen are to be awed by the knowledge of their predecessors are to be impressed with the desecration they commit...
...unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be jor fornication, and shall marry another, committing adultery; and whose married her which is put away doth commit adultery.-Matthew...
...Mexico City Albert Medrano, who had tried to commit suicide by: throwing himself under a train (but was prevented); shooting himself in the head (but the pistol failed); asphyxiation (but relatives broke in); drowning (but he was hauled out of the river); hanging (but he was cut down), made one more attempt. He climbed to the roof of his house, jumped off, died of heart failure...