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...Berlin two youths convicted of selling military secrets to unnamed foreign agents were beheaded at dawn...
...club house on Manhattan's West 24th Street, the big happy family known as the Society of Illustrators neared the end of a month of sober lectures by technicians including non-illustrators Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Reginald Marsh. At the swank Park Lane its members reveled until dawn in gay costume at their annual "Bal Scramboree." And at the Grand Central Fifth Avenue Art Galleries the society put on its 37th annual exhibition, prefaced by a defensive program note. "These men are first-class craftsmen in a most difficult field," it said defiantly, "but the art critics and the plush...
...birdies sing at break of dawn...
Untrammeled life-long health (except for six babies and an attack of typhoid) is superadded to Eleanor Roosevelt's other capacities. She is out of bed at dawn's crack, doing setting-up exercises, swimming, or riding her old mare Dot. She eats like an ostrich: anything, everything. After breakfast she answers mail, dictates her column, which has not once been tardy through fault of hers. A somewhat shrill yet mellow chortle is the tune of her whole day. (She has been taking voice lessons to improve on the radio...
...morning last week, two hours before dawn, the boom of a gun broke the almost rural silence of Tirana, the small capital perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...