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...Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and she was rescued, she built the $2,000,000 Memorial Widener Library at Harvard. In 1915 she married Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, wealthy surgeon-explorer, thereafter accompanied him on his South American explorations. Equally famed were her $1,000,000 rope of pearls, a Christmas present from her first husband in 1909, her Newport mansion, "Miramar," her huge annual tennis-week balls...
...friend Joe Crane, who runs a parachute school at Roosevelt Field, L. I. went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell...
...into the gullied wilderness where they built a fire. To catch the rabbits the girls were to be placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then he returned and repeated the crime with the others. Then he ravished the three bodies. Finally in a fit of remorse he took off the girls' shoes, ranged them neatly side by side and prayed over them. "What...
...place for a merciful jailer was La Rotunda, which specialized in El Benemerito's two favorite brands of torture: the tortol, a rope knotted and tightened about the victim's forehead until his skull cracked; the cepo, in which a rifle, tied under his knees with a rope looped around his neck, was jumped on until the vertebrae parted...
...shrewd master of church and business law, a rigid disciplinarian who will take no back talk from any Father Coughlin. Indeed, observers felt that, though the Church had successfully liquidated the "Coughlin affair" of last autumn (TIME, Aug. 17 .et seq.) by giving the radio priest plenty of rope, it was putting a strong man in Detroit especially to prevent any repetition of Coughlinism. Archbishop Mooney is modest, good-natured, affable in dealing with churchmen of other faiths. In Rochester he drives his own automobile, plays golf in the 80s, stays away from parties. Catholic eulogizers speak of his "short...