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...squadron of planes, easily identified as Japanese by the red balls on their wings, appeared and dropped their first bomb. A direct hit just forward of the bridge put the Panay's only antiaircraft gun out of action, slammed Lieut. Commander Hughes against the bridge wheel, broke his leg, and blew all the clothes off Lieutenant D. H. Biwerse of Sheboygan, Wis. but left him uninjured...
...land in 1913 he thought he was just going to use it for shooting ducks. But people told him he could easily pay his taxes in muskrat pelts. Mr. Gibbs was pleased to find he could. He invented two traps: one which got the muskrats not only by the leg (which they often gnaw off to escape) but also by the body; another which netted them, captured them alive. Before long he was inventing and manufacturing traps to catch everything from English sparrows to bears. By 1919 he had a large factory in Trainer, Pa., made as many...
Young Henri drew pictures almost as soon as he could read, but at the age of 14 he broke a leg. The fracture was never properly set and a year later his other leg was broken too. Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and tiny, shriveled limbs. Only 4 ft. 6 in. high, he could not lift an ordinary suitcase off the ground, had special sausage-shaped luggage designed for him. Fortunately, although his aristocratic family could not stand the sight of him, they kept him well supplied with cash...
Sitting on a hosiery patent infringement suit, Bachelor-Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds asked: "What does 'full-fashioned' mean?" Answered Benedict-Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts: "It means that a stocking is made to fit the contours of the leg...
...Handsome Dan," the Yale bulldog that was so attractive to the Harvard Lampoon three years ago that they couldn't resist kidnapping him, is dead. He sustained a broken leg three weeks ago and unable to survive the accident because of complications, died last week...