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Died. Lieut. Colonel Pierre Lorillard, 61, tobacco heir (Old Gold), last direct descendant of fortune-founding Pierre I; of a throat infection; at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Known as Pierre III, he was actually the sixth successive Pierre. A rangy, horse-fancying bachelor, he gave Tuxedo Park's thinning old guard a bad turn two years ago by proposing that the 58-year-old colony be opened to unregistered red-bloods. Snorted he: "What is blue blood anyway? Bah!" Died. Judson Churchill Welliver, 72, confidential secretary to Harding and Coolidge (1921-25); of cancer; in Philadelphia. He once said that...
...Singular Merits." Herr Goebbels was exaggerating only a little when he crowed: "In the air war England holds Germany at the wrist, but in the submarine war Germany has England by the throat and it remains to be seen who will lose their breath first." In Washington, Navy Secretary Knox admitted that the Battle of the Atlantic had swung in Germany's favor in the last month. Said Frank Knox: "The situation is serious and a tough...
Here his high-pitched voice was not "the voice you can hear all over North Africa." His bright blue eyes were not now the eyes of "that disciplinary sonofabitch." Here his two pistols were in their holsters to stay, his bloodthirsty boasts lay doggo in his throat...
...came up I called out, 'Are you hurt?' He came toward me. Then he made a grab for me-right for my throat-and he was mumbling something I couldn't understand, but I knew it was Japanese...
...Afterwards I figured he was trying to get my lifejacket. Then, I don't know what I figured, except to get away from him. The lifejacket was tied right at my throat. The Japanese kept clawing at my throat, trying to choke and scratch me. He tried to gouge my eyes out, and he dug his nails into my cheek...