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Died, Godfrey G. Goodwin, 60, U. S. Representative-reject from Minnesota, Republican; instantly, when he fell/jumped from the fifth-floor window of his hotel room, several days after a collapse brought on by high blood pressure and heart trouble; in Washington's Hotel Driscoll at the foot of Capitol Hill. Died. Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar. 63, last Premier of Spain (February-April 1931) under the Monarchy; of lung trouble, uremia and complications; in Madrid...
...great lady over her, Nell never hit it off very well: when it came to backchat Louise was no match for her. Once Nell's coach was held up in Oxford by a threatening mob who thought Louise was inside. Nell put her curly head out the window, cried: "Be civil, good people, be civil! I am not she. I am the Protestant whore." The mob cheered, let her depart in peace...
That he is a notorious window-shopper, recently priced Radio City...
...with Tom, who was dangerous and did nothing, but "money gave him power and power is becoming to a man." Tom was gentle with her, kissed her a few times, then went away. Sally was heartbroken, tried taking a hot bath in her nightgown and sitting beside an open window, hoping to get pneumonia and die. She did not die, but a truck hit her one day and when she woke up she wanted to live. . . . Years later she met Tom in a speakeasy. "Of course I remember you. Do you know my husband...
...mystery of modern journalism is the Press's concept of news about itself. Confronted with a story about his own business, the newspaper editor seems to throw his news yardstick out the window. Last week offered a clear example. The Press gave columns to the dull doings of State Publishers' Associations convened throughout the land. It reported at length a Columbia University survey showing that most newspaper readers turn first to left-hand pages (for the obvious reason that right-hand pages are usually filled with advertising). The Press dwelt lovingly on a speech by Undersecretary of State...