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...Robin Hood's Head. Italy's pretext for stirring up trouble with Greece was the murder, some time in the last month, of an Albanian named Daout Hoggia. The Italian press claimed that Hoggia, an irredentist and a "sort of Robin Hood," had been killed by Greeks, who chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim...
...expected to total 3,500,000 people from June 1 to Labor Day. Typical figures elsewhere: 300,000 at Manhattan's Stadium; 123,000 for twelve free concerts in Washington; 76,000 for 24 at Chicago's Ravinia; 132,000 for 33 at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell...
...leaders were filled with anything but Joy and Bliss. Indicted in Los Angeles (U. S. crazy-cult headquarters) for mail frauds were 24 of them, headed by Mrs. Edna Wheeler Ballard ("alias Joan of Arc, Jesus and Lotus Ray King") and Donald Ballard ("alias Edona Eros, Robin Hood and Lafayette...
...Italy insisted last week that the British battle cruiser Hood and aircraft carrier Ark Royal were tied up in Gibraltar undergoing repairs after Italian bomb-hits last fortnight. Two small groups of big Italian bombers, each carrying two tons of explosive, appeared over the Rock one night after flying all the way from Italy (1,000 miles). A blaze of searchlights and a fierce storm of anti-aircraft fire burst from the Rock but the Italians got away after inflicting what they described as "serious damage" on the dockyard and supply dumps...
...fuzzy-eyed freshmen of a Wall Street bond school, the bankers knew exactly what they were doing. Each had paid $20 for his five-day course in practical banking. Tried out experimentally in 1937 by North Carolina's hefty, progressive bank commissioner, Gurney Pope Hood, the course was so successful that some 20 other States adopted it. During its four-year run the school has taught bankers from some four-fifths of North Carolina's 228 banks (resources...