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...have the dew and the dawn and the sunshine of a new era. No man or woman will ever go hungry in this town...
...last day last week he spent writing letters of apology to the parents of his victims. That night he prayed with the three pastors. At dawn the doors of the shed in the prison yard were opened. Executioner Groepler wheeled out what he had been hammering and filing on all day, a dusty French guillotine, 130 years old, which, with the Code Napoleon was a present from the Emperor to the Rhine states. At 6 a.m. Killer Kuerten walked unmoved to the machine, stretched out his naked neck. Down crashed the knife...
Nora Bayes, Sam Bernard, Hazel Dawn, Al Jolson and some others are sitting with Diamond Jim and Lillian, a quiet, friendly supper party with wit and wine. Miss Russell asks Miss Bayes to sing. Miss Bayes, reincarnated in electric yet mellow Ruth Etting, arises simply and simply sings "Shine on Harvest Moon." Hardened revue-goers call it the smash song of this summer on Broadway, all Little Shows and Band Wagons notwithstanding...
...yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft. aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up?and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered...
Like Death's beckoning fingers, two skis upright in a Greenland snow hummock last week signaled to searching Germans through the colored dawn of the returning midnight sun. Any unexplained man-made thing has awful import in the ice desert. The Germans clambered over the ridged ice to the skis, chopped them loose, chopped deeper into the frozen snow until they found the body of lost Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener. The body was carefully sewn within two blankets and covered with fur coats. The last chapter of Professor Wegener's career was clear...