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...just plain minors. Its plot is one of the usual far-fetched affairs, which are so extremely improbable that one is willing to over-look analysis and confine himself to a sort of comatose reception of stimuli: it deals with the harrowing experiences of old Apple Annie, who, poverty-stricken in New York, has been keeping her daughter in Europe in the belief that her mother is a fancy lady, of the haut monde. It goes without saying that the daughter has to come home, suddenly: she is about to be married, and the old Count wants to look over...
...onetime Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. recently elected Evangelical Bishop of the State of Prussia (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week Dr. Müller was about to mold what amounted to a new German Evangelical Church. He wanted no trouble, no backsliding at the last moment by conscience-stricken churchmen. The militant Saxon theological students were his praetorian guard. Menacingly they faced the famed Castle Church on the doors of which in 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses-the charter of the Reformation. Apprehensively churchmen comprising the Synod of the Evangelical Churches of Germany entered and prayed...
...Louis' encephalitis epidemic will indeed make that city famed in medical history. The epidemic, which began to spread in late July, has stricken more than 900 people, has killed 173, is the worst of its kind in the U. S. to date. Fourteen died last week, but U. S. Public Health Service investigators, three of whom anonymously permitted themselves to be bitten by mosquitoes which had bitten patients thought the St. Louis epidemic was on the decline. Understandable is the anxiety which many a Midwesterner feels over the spread of encephalitis. Cause and cure of the disease are still...
...friend and trusted aide of each & every one of them, Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, was dead in Washington at the age of 62. He had left his cubby-hole office just off the White House foyer one afternoon, gone home, been suddenly stricken with a heart attack. Declared President Roosevelt who had known him since the days of T. R.: "It was Ike Hoover who met me at the door when I came into the White House as my home. . . . His passing is a tremendous personal loss. . . . The nation, too, has lost...
...came a crowd of butchers and shoppers. One of the butchers flung a knife at Meek. He dodged it, ran outside, stopped suddenly four feet from a plainclothes man. He started shooting again, hit a woman. The plainclothes man neatly drilled a bullet into Meek's heart. Terror-stricken Mr. Wood was found shivering in a grocery shop...