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APRIL-Vardis Fisher-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Idyll of a fat, poverty- stricken farm girl with princess yearnings; Idaho's novelist-laureate in a comic Valentine vein...
Harlan Fiske Stone returned to Supreme Court work which he left when stricken four months ago with dysentery...
...Bois de Boulogne. Several witnesses last week heard and saw what happened. A man with a pistol coolly fired three shots at close range, next grappled Dmitri Navachine, drove home four blows with a long thin knife, and nimbly escaped as Paris passers-by rushed to help the stricken man but only drew to themselves the snarling attentions of his two big dogs. These faithful beasts stood guard over their stricken master as he lay weltering in a dark puddle of mud and blood, died before any human could reach...
Twisted into shapeless scrap were the engine, cars, shovels. Boulders flew like buckshot with here and there a human leg or arm, some landing as much as a mile distant. When the storm had passed 55 lay dead, 201 injured. Stricken with horror, the newshawks rushed from their vantage point to become stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers. Hundreds of weeping women surged to the mine's terraces, searched hysterically among mountains of debris for husbands and sweethearts. To begin an immediate in vestigation, the Governor of Antofagasta Province hurried to the scene, declared...
...Stricken at his home in Winnfield, La. lay Huey Pierce Long Sr., 85, father of Louisiana's late Senator, with his son Lieutenant Governor Earl K. Long at the bedside...