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Hall was not a man to let the rewards of his invention slip through his fingers. He gave millions to Oberlin and other institutions, collected rare rugs, had a platoon of servants in his big house. Although he never drank, smoked or married, his health failed in his 40's and he died at 50 of a spleen disorder...
...Item-Tribune pridefull) credited a major share of the victory to the patience and acumen of its own lawyer, 38-year-old Eberhard P. Deutsch. Seldom is a newspaper's lawyer a hero in its editorial rooms. Even more seldom does a local barrister achieve note among the platoon of silk-hatted, wing-collared striped-trousered counsel which is attracted to an important constitutional case. Lawyer Deutsch, son of a Cincinnati pedagog, got a job in the circulation department of the Item-Tribune, went to Tulane University's law school at night, was admitted...
Notable among the platoon of British subjects whom King George's annual New Year's Honors last week upped in the world was Actress Olga Nethersole, now 65, who was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...Liverpool, stood off the entrance to the Mersey River all night. Next morning it was raining. The dock was jampacked with newshawks, cameramen, workers, who thought they glimpsed the Lindberghs on deck, with Jon in his mother's arms. A tug warped the ship into its berth. A platoon of muttering bobbies carved a lane through the throng, stood in two rows staring into each other's faces. Charles and Anne Lindbergh, pale, came swiftly down the gangplank. A scattered, throaty cheer went up. Some of the men in rough clothes raised their caps. Anne Lindbergh smiled wanly...
Naked and sweating, Dedjazmatch Nassibu's men were digging like terriers in the foothills near Jijiga, preparing for a pitched battle to protect the country's only railway. Sinking huge anti-tank pits, their bottoms filled with spiked stakes, many big enough to hold an entire platoon, the Ethiopians sang a new song as they worked: "Shanko ingiillar leba! The white men are the thieves of the ages...