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...cases and placed around the walls are his many-colored rock specimens. They all seem frozen in crystal. Near the ceiling runs a frieze composed of transparencies which show western mountain scenes in colors. Varying illumination behind the transparencies shows how the original scenes change in appearance from dawn to night...
Resigned, cheerful in prison, she made friends with attendants, embroidered herself a silk shroud. All night before her execution she played whist with friends, stopped at midnight to make them some oyster stew. At dawn she marched off, unsupported, between two guards. She bantered with newsmen, posed for photographers, shook hands with the warden, kissed the guards, walked firmly up the steps to the gallows. Death was instantaneous, for the jerk of the noose cut off her head...
...Before dawn the next morning the Hoover car was cut off at Long Key, a barren palm-studded island 80 miles south of Miami. The President and friends detrained, walked a sandy way to the wharf where lay in spick & span readiness the white seagoing houseboat Saunterer. Its owner, Manhattan Capitalist Jeremiah Milbank, eastern G. O. P. Treasurer during the 1928 campaign, greeted the President, turned the boat over to him, got off. The President's ensign, a blue flag with four white stars around the seal of the U. S., was .broken out, cameras clanked and clicked, President Hoover...
...Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend named Larry Brennan. Her suitor is a rich and personable Englishman. Her lover is a Latin cabaret dancer. She goes to his rooms in the night, succumbs for the last time to his tender voice and hands, and in the early dawn, when he is less persuasive, poisons him with strychnine filched from her father's medicine chest. It is all scrupulously planned to give the realistic, factual impression that such things can be. That is the trouble with...
...regular inspection the night before. A perfect trip depended solely on the pilot himself. Mechanics hauled away the chocks. Pridham taxied to the end of the field, roared down the takeoff strip and was off in the fast increasing light-for his last trip. One hour later, by the dawn's early light, he was approaching the Hartford aerodrome, Brainard Airport, at the edge of the Connecticut River. He tipped the nose of his plane to the field, left his motor open. Two observers watched him, amazed that he was going into a needless power dive. Below...