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Artist Doctoroff, 47, is the nearest thing there is to a court painter in the U. S. His court is the Republican Party, where he made friends when 1) he won a contest for charcoal drawings of the late Calvin Coolidge, 2) the Republican Chicago Tribune got a violent crush on him. Trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union, where he took a four-year art course in two years, Artist Doctoroff was a modest illustrator in Dallas, Tex. when his Coolidge drawing, done from photographs, won over 1,000 others, was made the official campaign picture. He also drew...
...Waddie's most famous puzzling cases a man had been killed during a shooting fray, but the nearest bullet was found on the floor four feet from the corpse. Some unknown missile had penetrated the breastbone and windpipe, grazed the esophagus, pierced the large artery (aorta) leading from the heart. Result: "massive, bursting hemorrhages of every blood vessel [in the chest], a great gush of blood from the mouth." Waddie was sure the bullet had done the damage, but attorneys for the suspect in the case insisted that the victim must have been stabbed with a dagger by someone...
...barren island of Perim, whence pirates once took toll, although in British hands, does not control it so much as the nearby ports. Along the Red Sea's African Coast the Italians held Assab, Massaua and got Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden when France surrendered. The nearest British base was Aden across the Gulf...
...Nearest thing to professional publicizing that Mr. Willkie had in the East was volunteered by FORTUNE'S onetime Managing Editor Russell Davenport (who resigned May 2 "to further the nomination of Wendell L. Willkie"). Last week, after the professional politicos had stopped laughing, "Mitch" Davenport received the following wire from Washington: "THANKS A MILLION, MITCH. YOU SAVED THE NEW DEAL, THE FOREIGN POLICY, AND THE THIRD TERM. TOM CORCORAN...
...Beau Geste" of all at the fortresses of Joux and L'Ecluse. These strongholds, cut into shoulders of the Jura Mountains above Bellegarde near the Swiss frontier, dominate a series of narrow gorges where the Rhone boils under sheer rock cliffs. The Legionnaires' commander telephoned to the nearest German general, at Pontarlier: "Come and get us." The Germans came. They captured Bellegarde. When they stormed up to the forts, the Legionnaires threw them back, threw them out of the town. As fast as the Germans landed parachute troops on the Joux fortress, the Legionnaires picked them...