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...knows perhaps in the dark ages of the world some highly civilized people incorporated cancer--perhaps it threw an enzyme of courage into our blood stream, perhaps we would be more sane now if this mistake had not been made...
Last fall Shoemaker, kept sleepless in a Minneapolis hotel by trolley repair men, went into battle at 2 a. m. in trousers, undershirt, smashed an acetylene welding machine, threw red lanterns in all directions, demanded a ride to police headquarters four blocks distant, was released when he identified himself. The trolley company swallowed its loss...
...Times but far more venerable, the Vossiche Zeitung was "Auntie Voss" to Berliners. It had reported the battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf its attitude was one of disgusted scorn, until he came into power and threw the Nazi blanket over "Auntie Voss' " head. That blanket has suffocated 600 German newspapers. In Hamburg alone four papers gave up last week. And in Berlin "Auntie Voss" expired too, with one last muffled peep...
...Sifton, son of a Canadian Cabinet official. Mrs. Sifton's third hus band was Captain John Victor Nash of the British Army. Before her divorce from Captain Nash, she figured in a notorious lawsuit brought by Paris dress makers against her husband in which the Judge declared: "She threw herself be neath the fatal curse of luxury. . . . Dress and dress alone seems to have been her end in life." Mrs. Nash next married Prince Mohammed Sabit Bey of Egypt. Six weeks later she induced him to divorce her. The following year she married M. Dubonnet. Her five unions have...
...Said Editor Armentrout: "I am not guilty of contempt and I expect to find my vindication in the courts. . . . The Attorney General will have to sue me which will give me an opportunity for justice. This action was a 'face'-saving maneuver for the first committee which threw me in jail without a trial . . . and utterly without authority...