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Cervantes' heroic determination helped Christendom to win one of history's decisive battles; it also got him three musket wounds, and one of them made his left arm useless for life. Later, on his way back to Spain, Moorish pirates captured him and held him for ransom in Algiers...
Destiny's Ransom. At week's end the Glasgow Daily Record published a petition, addressed to King George, which it had received through the mail. The petitioners, who did not sign their names, boasted that they had taken the Stone of Destiny, offered proof by giving unpublished but accurate details of the wrist watch left behind in the Abbey. They petitioned that the Stone be kept in Scotland henceforth, and taken to London only for the coronation of the King's successors...
Highlights of the Summer School conferences was the poetry conference which brought to Cambridge modern poets from all over the world. Numerous footings were held which includes speeches by such prominent figures as Stephen Spender, Pierre Emmanuel, and John Crowe Ransom...
...Park's Saturday Square, and Hawkins Falls, based on nearby Woodstock, Ill.; Ted Mills's Portrait of America and Crisis; Charlie Andrews' Studs' Place, which drew 4,000 letters of protest (mostly from New York and Philadelphia) when it was dropped last month, and the Ransom Sherman Show, dedicated to the incurable inefficiency of the American male...
...Died. Ransom Eli Olds, 86, who designed and built one of the first working automobiles (1886), founded the Olds Motor Works (taken over by General Motors in 1908) and the Reo Motor Car Co. (named from his three initials); in Lansing, Mich...