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...training camp at Lake Villa, III. As is usual on such momentous occasions, a dozen motorcycle police "made way" for the celebrity's car at about 60 m.p.h. Hitting a bump, Officer Frank Truba's motorcycle careened into two others-smash. Mr. Tunney leaped from his motor, knelt, helped give first aid. . . . Later somebody asked Mr. Tunney if boxing was conducive to ideals. Said he: "Ideals are congenial...
...Recently Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania took her son, King Michael, to communion. When the priest was about to offer the consecrated wine to the boy king as he knelt before the altar, Michael said simply: "I don't drink wine in the morning." The priest assured the royal youngster that holy wine was not the same as other wine and that he must take at least a sip if he wanted to be a good boy and receive the blessing. After looking over at his mother, who wore an expression of mingled pain and amusement, Michael finally...
Beside him knelt Professor John MacNeil, an old friend, onetime Minister of Education. His pencil took down nine words: "I leave everything to my wife and baby daughter." Although Mr. O'Higgins' strength was ebbing he was able to sign...
...might have been and done none of these things had not his pious mother knelt beside her log cabin in Trumbull County, Ohio...
...Pointed omission to kneel when all present knelt except himself while King Alfonso XIII was blessed by His Eminence Eustochio Cardinal Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville. Edward, conscious that the Church of England is Protestant, stood fumbling nervously with his hat throughout the ceremony...