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...months ago a man named Blackburn and his mother rented a big, white, frame house at Oklawaha, scraggly little citrus town in central Florida. One dawn last week 15 Department of Justice agents tapped quietly at the doors of houses near the newcomers', warned residents to get out of range. Then they surrounded the big, white house and cried, "Come out!" For answer they got a spit of machine-gun fire. There followed an ear-splitting six hours which Oklawahans will long remember. "It was like war," one of them gasped afterwards. Furious firing from both sides...
...Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker is vice president of TWA and general manager of Eastern Air Lines. As such, he usually goes along on record-breaking inter-city runs by the companies' planes to help make publicity. Last week he started out on what was to be a dawn-to-dusk round-trip flight from New Orleans to New York, inaugurating Eastern Air Lines' 9-hour service between the two cities. The Rickenbacker plane zipped from New Orleans to New York (1,301 mi.) in 7 hr. 8 min., on the return trip got stuck in Washington with...
...England's finest leave a half empty punch bowl to march forth amid the plaudits of the multitude and the tender lamentations of the fair. Dainty handkerchiefs flutter from the balconies as the troops march past, for it has been "the last waltz, Madeline, and m' regiment leaves at dawn." Historically speaking, just a trifle before dawn...
...dawn last week black-cowled Death came to a frail little man lying on a straw pallet in a hushed Kentucky monastery, oldest in the U. S. Soon black-cowled Trappist monks broke their habitual silence to chant the office of the dead for Rt. Rev. Edmond M. Obrecht, 83, Abbot of the Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemane, superior administrator of all Trappists in the U. S. and Canada...
...morning the old roue, now young and vigorously drunk, unfortunately suffers another immersion in the pool, and is rejuvenated to infancy before he can be rescued. But he still continues to have some of the appetites of a man of the world, calls mewlingly for whiskey and cigars. As dawn's curtain descends, the masqueraders are rapidly resuming their proper shapes...