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...Chicago, a southbound elevated train hit Charles Mead, lofted him over to the northbound tracks where a northbound train lofted him back to the southbound tracks where another train lofted him off the elevated structure to the ground. His worst injury: a broken leg...
Died. William George Bradley, Fifth Earl of Craven, 35; at Pau, France. At 19. he married the town clerk's daughter, went to war, lost a leg. At 24 he inherited the title when his father drowned. Soon afterwards he eloped with the wife of Earl Cathcart. After several years of travel, they visited the U. S. The Earl of Craven was admitted, Countess Cathcart barred on the ground of "moral turpitude...
...taller by 2⅛ in. than Man o' War. His girth behind the shoulders was 81 in. against Man o' War's 71¾ in. Alive, Phar Lap weighed approximately 1,200 lb.; Man o' War, 1,160 Ib. Other measurements: front leg from knee, 20 in.; hind leg from hock, 25 in.; length of neck, 36 in.; length of body...
...Manhattan Rocco Colonna, 33, unemployed musician, leaped to the tracks in the 42nd Street station of the new $191,200,000 Eighth Avenue Subway, opened two days before. Before a train appeared he was dragged up with a broken leg...
...lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face. One eye was shut, the other expressionless. . . . The agony lasted 45 minutes." Bomber Frolenko spent 24 years at hard labor and in exile before he escaped in the uprisings of 1905. At 84 he is robust...