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Down steep Art Hill in St. Louis's Forest Park last week went vanloads of crated sculpture. Forty of the works of Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles-ranked by many a critic as greatest in the generation following Rodin-were en route to the second stop on their U. S. tour: St. Louis to Detroit, to Cleveland, to Toledo, to Brooklyn. They will tarry in the art museums of each city about six weeks. Never before have art lovers in the U. S. had the chance of so long or so extensive a look at Milles' handiwork. In fact...
Through the rich forests of six western States last week swept devastating fire. Lack of rain had made the vast timberlands ripe for flames. Suddenly, scattered fires in central Idaho came together, beat back firefighters, bore down on farms, ranches and towns. Two towns were razed as their inhabitants fled to the open country. Many fugitives stayed for hours up to their necks in mountain streams, caught pneumonia. Animals, wild and domestic, were burned to death running. The heat stirred up tornadoes that fanned the flames to fresh heights. Mining camps were leveled, two more towns destroyed. Simultaneously forest fires...
...shore of Lake Superior, cut off from the world by a dense forest, stands Marquette prison, strong, grim, forbidding. In it are confined Michigan's worst criminals?bandits, kidnappers, murderers?for Michigan has no death penalty. Few of them can hope for an early release; many have no hope of ever being allowed to go free. Marquette is a home of desperate...
Once Peter had King Harry alone and at his mercy in the forest, but he played his advantage badly, almost swung for it. He lost his chance at the throne and he lost the beauteous Sabine Beauforest. In so doing he gained his soul, a kingdom in the greenwood, and anonymity...
...marked by prowess but by no particular ambition, David and Charles live hard but enjoyably in the wilderness, go on great sprees when they come to town, feel no need of a change. Then one day in the forest they run into measly little Grosjean and his desirable woman Karin. Both the brothers want Karin but David wants her most, so Charles helps him tie up Grosjean, kidnap the girl. Grosjean pursues them, somehow manages to catch up, shoots Charles. It is a shrewd blow, but Charles recovers. Such is Grosjean's remorse that he is allowed to join...