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...Detroit, one Patrick Klein (pugilist) last week argued with a bullyboy thug - who fired four shots point blank. One bullet pierced Pugilist Klein's chest, nicked the outer wall of his heart, fortunately for him, just as it was contracting in its beat. Had the heart been expanding at the instant of the bullet's passing, it would have been torn mortally. Last week Surgeon Bernard Friedlander at Detroit's Highland Park General Hospital laid open Pugilist Klein's chest with infinite care not to disturb the even pulsation of the heart, plucked out the imbedded...
Married. Cyril E. Kissane, city editor of the Wall Street Journal, to Claire Dreyfoos. Last summer Mr. Kissane lost his wallet, received a dainty card, called at indicated address, recovered his treasure, met his bride...
...Wall Street has its candidates- Nathan L. Miller, Dwight W. Morrow, James Augustine Farrell. Mr. Farrell, president of the Corporation since 1911, is the keystone of its organization, the pivotal point between the executive committee and the subsidiaries. He, a great steelmaker and foreign trader, could scarcely be spared from his duties. Mr. Morrow, lawyer and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., is more available. Everyone knows that U. S. Steel continues to be an Morgan industry. Mr. Morrow is the astute friend of presidents (he is almost the chum of President Coolidge, was his classmate at Amherst; also President...
...broad smiles that wreathed Wall Street last autumn returned one afternoon last week. Four tokens of a renaissance in the stock market had made their appearance...
...call and another, repeating to sleepy storekeepers and clerks and villagers what the voice had said: "The Reservoir has broken. A flood is coming." Before she got to H in the directory the flood was up to her knees; when she got through Z the switchboard was swamped, the walls were crumbling. She had her husband splice the toll line to a phone in the wall, talked to El Paso-"Send us help." Then the ceiling fell...