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...Denis pére et fils. Recently Doctor Jean and Son Raymond took their lawyer to see Une Petite Fortune, a new Yves Mirande film in which a village doctor gets the local mayor to remove warning signs from a dangerous crossroads, waxes rich patching up motorists when they crash. "Libel!" roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy, based on the incident at Mâcon, but in nowise aimed at les Docteurs Denis," cried Defendant Mirande. The entire Macon Tribunal traveled 45 miles...
Died. Captain D. S. King, 33, British Airways pilot, who flew the plane that carried Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Germany during the Munich crisis in 1938; in a plane crash near Loch Lomond. Two other crisis pilots have also died in air crashes...
...Coming Towards You stands out like a billboard among current books of verse. It has its author's excitement to proclaim, and it proclaims it in images that crash all the gates of its reader's senses. As an eye-catcher, it rates 100; as an eye-opener, perhaps five...
Died. Chief White Wolf, 72, one of the survivors of South Dakota's Wounded Knee Massacre; in an automobile crash, while en route to Washington to ask Congress to pay damages for the 1890 slaughter of Sioux by U. S. troops; in Bedford...
After the Crash. By 1935, utility security pyramiding had stopped. U. P. & L.'s future rested on two main assets: 1) all the common stock of the then $80,000,000 Indianapolis Power & Light Co. which netted U. P. & L. well over $500,000 a year; 2) stock control of a group of British properties worth about $25,000,000 so long as the pound didn't fall. First claim on these assets was held by $50,000,000 of U. P. & L. debentures which that year sold in the market as low as 20? on the dollar...