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Died. Robert Wadlow, 22, tallest man in medical annals (8 ft., 9½ in., 491 lb.); of complications following a foot infection; in Manistee, Mich...
...feared never seeing them again, so on the other side of the Channel Hitler's preparations went forward. Sweating and laboring, the gun crews moved their cannon nearer the Channel; pungent-smelling aviation gas was stored for the bombers that would soon roar over the darkened cities; 500-lb., 1,000-lb., 2,000-lb. bombs were brought up to air fields, bombs destined to plunge through the roofs of houses, which always look vacant from...
...gift from "the Belgian people" to the Herbert Hoover Library at Stanford University went the $100,000, 35-bell, 6,916-lb. carillon of the Belgian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair...
Died. Paul Drennan Cravath, 78, massive, magisterial corporation lawyer, head of one of the nation's greatest law firms, Cravath, de Gersdorif, Swaine & Wood; of a heart attack; in Locust Valley, L. I. Nearly 55 years ago Paul Cravath, with his yard-wide shoulders, 240 lb., 6 ft. 4 in., was "Cicero'' to his Columbia University Law School classmates, at whose head he stood. In a "dry-goods"' law firm (one partner: Charles Evans Hughes) he pursued insolvent debtors for textile merchants, began acquiring corporations as clients. His first big one was Westinghouse Electric...
...vice president of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, a production man; Brother Robert Willkie, his assistant; Brother Edward E. Willkie of Chicago, vice president in charge of the salmon division of Libby, McNeil & Libby. All four Willkies went to Philadelphia last week, were photographed together, gave their collective weight as 900 lb...