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...Bolivian merchant marine consisted of a single ship, the Presidente Saavedra, named for onetime (1921-26) President Dr. Bautista Saavedra* of Bolivia. In the spacious harbor of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the one-ship fleet of Bolivia slowly began to take water last week from an unrevealed cause, then sank. Bolivians are vexed because their country has no seaport, being completely surrounded by Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and (completing the clockwise circle) Chile. Everyone knows that a solution urged by the U. S. State Department to settle the dispute between Chile and Peru over Tacna-Arica (TIME...
...Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one William Connors yanked powerfully on the leash of his police dog, Alex, when the latter, growling savagely, made a sudden leap at a passing woman. The woman screeched, fled. The dog turned, sprang at its master who, burly, sank his fingers in the dog's throat as he was knocked flat. For six minutes man and dog writhed on the sidewalk, snapping, shouting, snarling, grunting. Then the dog groaned, fell limply over, wheezed, died. Police dog experts admitted Alex had "gone wolf...
...Nashville, Tenn., one Ella Welch, Negress, ecstatic with her conception of Scriptures, began a lone promenade over the Cumberland River last week. She did not have bridge, boat or stepping stones; sank. Deputy sheriffs dragged the river for her body...
...front of a piano in Vienna. His narrow dexterous fingers sank into the keys of the instrument as if sowing in neat rows the seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...
...late afternoon sun of yesterday sank no deeper wherever late afternoon suns have a habit of sinking than did the spirits of those few straggling Seniors who left Memorial Hall without ever noticing the picture of one venerable gentleman, height Boylston. The first of the annual "Ask Me Another" examinations had passed into history...