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Long before New Year's daylight John W. Hunefeld arose in his Washington home on C street, put on his salt-and-pepper suit, breakfasted quickly, and set forth through dark streets for the White House. He would do no odd jobs of painting and-carpentering that day. He was going to meet the President...
...Cruising off Newport, R. I. one night last week, a coast guard patrol boat leveled its searchlight on a dark, low hull bearing the number C-5677. Guardsmen, recognizing the liquor-runner-suspect Black Duck shouted stop orders. When the Black Duck veered to speed away, guardsmen opened fire, killed three suspected smugglers, wounded a fourth...
Poised like a puzzled poodle with a bon-bon on his nose, M. Herbette wondered what on earth to do with Rumania's note. He tried laying it on Comrade Litvinov's desk. With an impatient gesture the Russian flicked it away. The Frenchman flushed a dark red, stung to the quick of honor, but kept his temper by an effort really superhuman for a diplomat...
Died. Tennessee Mitchell Anderson, 52, sculptress, eurythmic dancing teacher, divorced wife of Author Sherwood Anderson (Dark Laughter, The Triumph of the Egg); at Chicago; of a hemorrhage of the lungs...
...realized that "we are not starting this study altogether in the dark. Some very promising beginnings have been made in other universities." But the Spencerian method is potentially the most scorchingly abusive or sweetly flattering inquisition that an anxious faculty has ever faced...