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Formed by a big merger in 1890 and expanded by many later acquisitions, National Casket leads the field. It has offices in 27 cities, also many factories, last year sank $800,000 in new land and buildings...
...Lassman's death. Facts now known: Lassman's canoe, containing himself and three boys, upset one afternoon on Long Lake. He placed two of the boys on the overturned boat, brought the third within reach of another canoe which had sped to the rescue. Then, exhausted, Lassman sank. The three boys were taken ashore, kept silent...
...Schmeling, world's champion heavyweight fighter, driving a fast motorboat alone on Scharmützelsee (large lake 18½ mi. from Berlin) dove off just before the boat sank, shed his overcoat, leather jacket and boots while swimming, was rescued, exhausted, after...
First and worst of the Natchez Trace bandits were the Harpes: Micajah ("Big") Harpe and Willy ("Little") Harpe. With their three women (a wife apiece, one in common) they roamed the wilderness four years, robbed many a night-foundered traveler, sank his corpse, gutted and weighted with sand, in a nearby stream. The Harpes were killers for the fun of it; they never missed a chance, whether it paid them or not. "Big" Harpe was finally shot; "Little" Harpe, born to be hanged, kept his appointment with the gallows five years later...
...home hole. These were his only mistakes in the greatest round that he or any man ever played in a U. S. Open. He did it with his mashie niblick, playing doubtful carries short and laying approaches dead. Though he had nine one-putt greens, the longest putt he sank was his ten-footer on the first...