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...last passengers to ride with President Roosevelt in his specially-built touring car, in which he had driven from dawn to dusk during his stay at Warm Springs, were Mrs. Roosevelt and her two inseparable companions, shaggy-haired Nancy Cook and schoolmarmish Marian Dickerman. With these the President drove to the Warm Springs railway station last week, through avenues of cheering neighbors and rows of khaki-clad CCC foresters. His fellow-travelers thought he had taken on a little weight...
...week's biggest winner. Louis Ribiere. 32, a small coal-&-wood merchant of Avignon. At dawn he was irritably reaching for his breakfast coffee in an Avignon bistro when the barman pushed him a copy of the morning paper. Ribiere's eye fell on the news that his ticket had won the 5,000,000 franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping...
...their own estimation Spanish women were more than prepared to vote in a parliamentary election last week for the first time in their lives. By the millions they were up at dawn, swarming around Spanish polling places. Nuns especially turned out en masse to vote against the Socialists who have so cramped the revenues and agelong privileges in Spain of Mother Church. Amazingly, hundreds of wives of Spanish grandees and nobles who have been living fearfully abroad boldly returned, bringing their husbands in many cases, to vote as their consciences commanded. All over Spain the arrival of a priest...
...American Ornithologists' Union did after its organization in 1883 was to advertise for volunteer observers of bird migrations. From a young New Jersey bank clerk named Chapman came an enthusiastic response. Each weekday morning from early March to late May of 1884 Volunteer Chapman got up at dawn, gulped a cup of coffee, set out with notebook and field glasses to tramp the woods & fields around his home. He had to catch a 7:39 a. m. train to get to his Manhattan job, but when the spring reports were in Chapman's were judged best...
Waking suddenly just before dawn in his Manhattan penthouse. Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, who likes to roam the Mongolian Gobi, dimly saw a small man squatting like a monkey by his bed, staring into his face. Dr. Chapman swore, lunged at the intruder. The man ducked back, fled out on a balcony. Dauntless Dr. Chapman leaped after him, tackled him on the fire-escape. After a moment's scuffle, the intruder kicked away, darted down to freedom. "I am accustomed to years of sleeping in camp and I can feel the presence of anybody." explained Dr. Chapman. "When...