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...dawn one morning last week, bronzed, begoggled Ab Jenkins, 50-year-old mayor of Salt Lake City, strapped a crash helmet under his grease-smeared jowls, stepped into his airplane-motored speed car, set out on his favorite tour: around a 12½-mile circle on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats...
...gallstone operation; in Manhattan. Onetime Kansas newshawk, Dr. Reisner startled sophisticated New Yorkers with his promotion schemes to "sell" religion (billboard advertising, Broadway entertainers in the pulpit, hymn-whistling services, preaching in costume) succeeded in raising $3,000,000 for his skyscraper church (still unfinished) before the 1929 crash...
...Krupa's. With his whole band massed behind him, the Brigadier twirls his drumsticks faster & faster, whirls them over his head, down to his ankles throughout the number. He can catch his sticks at any beat he wants, change pace with offbeat effects, shade his tone from a crash to a whisper...
Died. Norman McLeod Rogers, 45, Canadian Minister of National Defense, onetime (1935-39) Minister of Labor; in an air crash near Newtonville...
...began to peck out his next scheduled broadcast. Suddenly an air-raid siren screamed, and Archinard, together with his two girl helpers, headed out of the apartment at the double quick. They were huddled in a hallway when several Nazi bombs whammed down upon adjoining buildings, exploded with a crash that blasted doors and windows out of Archinard's apartment, ruined 10,000 francs worth of fresh paint and plaster. White-lipped but determined, Archinard waited for quiet, then returned to his machine. Brushing aside bits of broken glass, he proceeded to bat out an eyewitness account...