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...genuine prince. Nothing was overlooked except that the committee neglected to ascertain that the Prince's hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned the welcoming brass-hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten man ensued. He was eventually found at his modest Woodmont cottage, seven miles out of town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat next to the Prince (at the Prince's insistence). The conversation presented pretty tough...
...leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes found his son after the search described in his famed My Hunt after the Captain. As a Supreme Court Justice he often visited Mrs. Findlay, said that her face as a little girl was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Last week, Mrs. Findlay gave the President a first-hand account of the incident, urged...
Fortunately, in the U. S. treasury, as in an old-fashioned attic, valuable relics may be misplaced but rarely lost. Last week, after three days' frantic search, the Alaskan check turned up in a musty drawer of the General" Accounting Office where it had reposed since 1921. By this time, the House had passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy...
...failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent that the ship was down somewhere between the Pole and Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room to land on the ice, Russian airmen refused to be worried, set out to search from Russia and from Fairbanks. Into the air too leaped Joe Crosson and several others of the eager band of Alaskan flyers whose rescue work in the past has brought them world-wide renown. From Los Angeles, Flyer James Mattern, who contemplates a transpolar flight to Moscow...
...State's Attorney Thomas Courtney hurriedly organized a central Sex Bureau to keep up-to-date records of all men accused of molesting children. Whenever a new case is reported, detectives are to study the records, social service workers observe social causes, psychiatrists give mental examinations, and physicians search for venereal and other diseases. At the end of an investigation the accused will go to an insane asylum if he is a proven psychopath, or be prosecuted for felony...