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...wine confiscated in an outhouse behind the Aratoga Inn, near Cairo, where Diamond was host. And it began to appear that the bullet-riddled gangman, whose life was at first despaired of, would live to stand trial. Amazed at his recuperative powers, said his doctor: "He's lead proof. They can't kill...
Citizens of Troy, N. Y. last week organized under Editor Rutherford Hayner of the Troy Times to press a claim that the original Uncle Sam was a Trojan. They asked the Federal Government to recognize their claim with a suitable memorial. For proof they pointed to a simple grave on the hillside overlooking the city in which lie the bones of one Samuel Wilson (1768-1854). Tall, spare, dignified, kindly, he, said the people of Troy, was the original Uncle Sam. The gist of their claim, based on old family letters, was as follows...
...that aviation has again taken a hard blow and intercollegiate flying circles especially will suffer. No parent seeing the blaring headlines of students crashing to the ground will readily become airminded to the extent that sonny will be allowed to go up in the near future. Until a fool-proof ship has been designed and put on the market, sonny must remain on the ground; while father uses the airplane in his business...
...gayety of nations, the enlightenment of the people, and win the nomination." Its summary: "There was something of Cole Blease in him, and 'Cotton Tom Heflin, Al Smith and Hiram Johnson. . . . He was a force to be reckoned with." Above a reproduction of the original Tribune galley-proof, "Big Bill's" campaign managers wrote: "This biography . . . undoubtedly represents what the Tribune really thinks about Thompson. It was willing to tell the truth if he were dead...
...professions. The Herald Tribune is heavily committed to the G. O. P. but its voice is quick and loud in criticism of its party, especially during the present Administration. Manned by alert, enterprising editors, it has made itself a daily bible for young executives as well as aging Tories. Proof in itself of the paper's enterprise was its engagement of celebrated Liberal Lippmann, who will be permitted to write as he pleases, generally when he pleases, under his own signature, much as his volubly independent Harvard classmate Heywood Broun writes for the New York World-Telegram...