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Only once did the name Alex Gumberg ever appear in a newspaper headline. That was last week when at 51 he died suddenly in Norwalk, Conn., stricken with coronary thrombosis while entertaining at his country home. Yet in one short life he had been a trusted adviser to Nikolai Lenin and the confidant of a Morgan partner...
...America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest efficiency for 80,000 patients a year in the great Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., medical science did all it could for 73-year-old Dr. Mayo, who had been suddenly stricken while traveling in the Middle West. But his was a hopeless case. Few days later he was dead...
...Miami, deaf Mrs. Irene Hahn, 65, fled terror-stricken from her bedroom when a man started battering at the door with an axe, locked herself in an adjoining room. Presently that door, too, was battered. She retreated to another room. There the axe-wielder finally cornered deaf Mrs. Hahn, explained the house was on fire, he, a fireman...
...white frock. After the dance they started to drive her to an address she gave. At a cemetery she asked to be let out of the car. One of the boys threw his coat over her shoulders, followed her into the graveyard. She vanished, he fell dead. Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months before. On the dead girl's grave, they found the dead boy's coat. When they exhumed her, they found a wine stain on her white burial dress...
...rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd did know, however, was that a prison rule forbade clergymen to talk publicly about such matters. When Baptist Thweatt's story got in the press last week, the Warden had his name stricken from the list of ministers eligible for service at the prison...