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Some 15,000 persons, white and red, were gathered about the canyon when Citizen Coolidge arrived from Globe with Arizona's Governor John C. Phillips. He climbed up the dam parapet to speak. The beat of tom-toms died away. He had a sore throat; his voice was husky. A plane droned disturbingly in the desert stillness above. Citizen Coolidge began...
...prisoner's box of a Buffalo court. Within arm's reach of the box stood David Glickstein, jeweler, who accused the defendant of stealing $9,000 of his merchandise. Suddenly Prisoner Dombkiewicz flipped out a surgeon's scalpel, leaned out of his box, slit the Glickstein throat. Said he vengefully: "That's how I treat squealers." On the bench Judge Alonzo G. Hinkley was outraged. Glickstein, not seriously injured, had his throat bandaged at a hospital, returned to court in time to hear the Buffalo jury say: "Guilty...
...throat Shippers. "The annual increase in trade throughout the world" sighs The Commercial "appears to be . . . so very small as not even to be keeping up with normal progress in other directions...
Yehudi Menuhin, 13-year-old California boy prodigy, gave a violin recital in Manhattan to a packed house. Although he had a sore throat, Prodigy Menuhin would not postpone the performance when he heard that Conductor Arturo Toscanini was in the audience. After the recital. Conductor Toscanini bussed Yehudi, promised to have him play a concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...Broussa, Turkey, Constantia Shemseddine declared that a snake which had crawled down her throat four years ago was still sticking its head out of her mouth once a day to breathe. Annoyed, Constantia Shemseddine made plans to have the snake removed...