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Paka-Jake, needing another outlet, concentrated on clairvoyance: he could always tell that one of his more affluent neighbors was about to die in a few months. Forthwith one of the disciples would be dispatched with a warning-and a promise that Paka-Jake would intercede with the gods if the neighbor paid Paka-Jake a couple of thousand bolivianos (about $40). Sometimes he paid and sometimes not. If not, the neighbor kicked the bucket...
Breger was born in Chicago a few weeks after his parents reached the U.S. from the Ukraine. He studied abnormal psychology at Northwestern University, graduated in depression-ridden 1931, found jobs scarce. A man able to face facts, he forthwith entered his father's sausage business in Chicago. As office manager, his chief contribution was a slogan: "Our Wurst Is The Best...
...Japan's Kwantung army, looking for an excuse to invade Manchuria, accused Chinese soldiers of blowing up a section of the Japanese-operated South Manchurian railroad near Liu Ho Kou. Japanese forces occupied the entire Mukden area forthwith. Not a bit embarrassed were the Samurais when it transpired that a train had traversed the damaged section of track half an hour after it was blown up. The Japanese offered various explanations and were even reported to have served up for internal consumption the following: the Japanese engineer, seeing the damage, appealed to the God-Emperor with such success that...
Husband Stephen Crane, 27, just found out his first wife's divorce from him would not be final till next week, said 22-year-old Julia Jean Crane (Cinemarmful Land Turner). The actress forthwith sued for an annulment seven months after she thought she had married him. Crane issued a formal statement expressing deep sympathy, understood that "Miss Turner should do everything legally necessary for the protection of the child soon to be born." No one mentioned the possibility of a second ceremony later...
Bill Benn was a flying archeologist in Persia in 1938 when he decided to join the Air Forces. He went to Australia as aide to George Kenney, forthwith began his first experiment on skip-bombing when he had heard the R.A.F. was using...