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...reasons of piety that the discoverer of the Java Man withdrew the fossils from further examination until 1926. Only his immediate family knows the real reason, and I am now writing the story of my father's life and discoveries, in which I will mention the real reason...
...captain drew a bead on the leader in short pants with an anti-tank machine gun. The German was a six-footer. The blast got him squarely in the chest. He disintegrated from the waist up. His followers, seeing what had happened to him, hurled their grenades and withdrew...
Finances spelled the Transcript's doom. Founded in 1830 to be "read in better homes after dinner," it has prospered on advertisements alone, its aristocratic circulation never approaching that of other Boston papers. But when the depression swept New England in 1929, advertisers withdrew, leaving a disastrous gap in the revenue. Finally in 1939 finances demanded a complete revision of format and policy. The Transcript under new management blossomed forth with the "Newscope," front page pictures, headlines and unfamiliar makeups, without the usual Jay ad in the left-hand corner. But the five cent tariff and fatter editions failed...
...Germans withdrew, at least temporarily. One British advance patrol behind the German spearhead caught a Nazi infantry unit in busses, and annihilated...
...going strong after 20 years of big-time golf, turned in 297 (for four rounds), ten strokes better than Jones's card but 17 behind Craig Wood's winning score. Walter Hagen and Francis Ouimet, both nearing 50 and too busy chasing business to bother chasing balls, withdrew after the first round. Ouimet had chalked up 82, Hagen 87, his highest score in nearly 30 years of professional play...