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...H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, 39, brother of King George VI. He was killed in an airplane crash, flying to Iceland...
...later became an officer and attended the Ecole de Guerre in Paris. He was commanding a cavalry brigade in 1939 when Poland fell. In the summer of 1943 General Wladislaw Sikorsky appointed him chief of the Polish underground, less than 24 hours before Sikorsky was killed in an airplane crash. The Germans were said to have put 200 agents on his track, a price of $1,600,000 on his head...
...Portland, his poise unruffled by the morning's train crash, he had lashed out against "the danger of one-man government...
Davidson was in action over France last May when flak forced him to crash-land. Over his radio he shouted to his mates: "Tell my wife I'm okay!" While Germans hunted for him, he hid in a wheat field. "I heard a German officer give the order to shoot me on sight. Later they brought hounds . . . but the wonderful French people came to my aid. They milled all around the aircraft and so confused the dogs that it was impossible for them to pick up my scent." After dark, the French took him to a farmhouse, gave...
...flop. He flopped again as a comic until he got the idea of telling his Jewish stories in blackface, clicked in vaudeville, climbed to George White's Scandals. Later Holtz abandoned cork for a cane, made vaudeville history by playing the Palace for ten straight weeks. The stockmarket crash dropped him "from a million to $732"; the decline of vaudeville drove him to pastures new; but after a dozen years of musicomedy, radio, Hollywood, show-producing, real-estate trading, today he has most of his million back...