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...German Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron von Steuben. Von Steuben, experienced Prussian officer, became in 1778 Inspector General of the Continental Army. He drilled recruits, made soldiers. In 1781 he watched his soldiers defeat the British at Yorktown. Congress, grateful for his services, gave him a gold-hilted sword, $2,400-per-year pension. He died at Steubenville, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1794. Last week the U. S. Postoffice Department prepared to issue 50 million special 2? stamps commemorative of Von Steuben's birth: the German's head reproduced in the same pink color as the standard...
...Spain fortnight ago a bull killed a man with a sword (TIME, Sept. 22). In Czechoslovakia, last week, a corpse shot a man with a pistol. Explanation: In the village of Bruex one Wenzel Kokoschka grew tired of life, blew out his brains with one bullet from a seven-shot repeater, lay on his face unnoticed for several hours. In due time the corpse was discovered...
When a bull kills a man with a sword it is news. In Tortosa's arena last week a dying black beast snapped the matador's espada from its shoulder with a last convulsive shake, hurled it high into the grandstand where it plunged hilt deep in the breast of an unidentified young man. A bystander, attempting to extricate the weapon, cut his hands severely...
White Flag! Up the staff of the "Pink House" as General Uriburu approached rose jerkily a white flag. But inside tern" porary President Martinez had not quite surrendered. As the sword-rattler clanked into the President's office with his staff the civilian faced him calmly...
...avoid a church scandal, he has permitted the publishing house books to be doctored to hide the money theft. His friends deny this vehemently. Pierson, they aver, was murdered not because he carried incriminating records, but because he, a notorious philanderer, had vexed some wench's man. This sword of scandal the "enemies" tried to plunge into the head of their convention. But all during last week's sessions Dr. Williams kept bobbing out of harm, skillfully, urbanely...