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This time the heroine was Viscountess Astor. As acting mayor of Plymouth town, the trigger-tongued Lady from Virginia had spent the day showing King George and Queen Elizabeth around the city. She sat in the dining room of her house on the Hoe with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, with her 17-year-old dock-working nephew, James Brand (son of the distinguished banker Robert Henry Brand, who was last week in the U. S. buying food for Britain), and with an American correspondent. It was 8:30 p.m. Nancy Astor was tired, but she kept...
...colostrum test is valid as early as two weeks after conception. This trigger-quickness is bested only by the ten-day interval of the Friedman rabbit test...
Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in exile, in Cannes, France...
...middle-readers were predominantly Nelson, judicial, greying Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, debonair, trigger-quick Under Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal. Patterson and Forrestal clung to the road's middle as desperately as if the road shoulders were mined...
...around him. Patrolman Maher held the gunman by the overcoat, started to turn him over, turned to warn the crowd away. "Back up, please," he said, "someone's liable to get hurt." As he rolled William over, the gunman's .38 came up. William Esposito pulled the trigger and Patrolman Maher slumped over, dead...