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Long before the Civil War a German known to medical history only as G settled in wild Washtenaw County, Michigan, near the village of Ann Arbor. As Indians withdrew into the northern forests, Pioneer G cleared woodlands, cultivated crops, bred children. When at the age of 60 he died of cancer of the intestines in 1856, he left ten children. Four of his five sons, two of his five daughters subsequently died of cancer. The third generation of G's numbered 70, of whom 33 died of cancer...
Protagonists of the scandal were Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 22, ablest and best-looking swimmer on the U. S. team; Playwright Charles MacArthur fresh from a Chicago courtroom where his first wife, Cinemacritic Carol Frink, finally withdrew an alienation of affections suit against his second wife Actress Helen Hayes (TIME, July 13); and Avery Brundage, chairman of the U. S. Olympic Committee...
...Denver free-for-all between Publishers Bonfils and Roy Wilson Howard came to a nominal end in 1928 when the Post discontinued a morning edition and the News withdrew from the evening field. Yet the struggle for prestige and profits was still as keen as ever. That Denverites, for all Scripps-Howard might do, continue to like their blatant, cocksure Post is evidenced by the fact that that sheet with its red headlines and its frank sensationalism has more than four times the weekday circulation of the News, nearly seven times its Sunday circulation. Scripps-Howard editors came & went with...
...fact that the $600,000 paid was for services rendered by the carriers prior to the cancelation of their contracts; the fact that the carriers withdrew their claims for damages in toto; the fact that the Government paid not one cent in reparation for the cancelation; the fact that nearly 20 top men of the airline companies had to be summarily ousted before the Government would consider proposals for new airmail contracts; and the fact that the canceled contracts were not reinstated, but new contracts were placed on a strictly competitive basis in accordance with the law; are conclusive evidence...
...such works of art as it may desire," the artists believed that the cherished no-jury principle had been violated, apparently not by the contract, but by the fact that the contract had been invoked. Sadly The Fair's Advertising Manager Arthur D. Buckland, himself an artist, withdrew his picture from the show, stated that his Executive Committee was no jury, but "a department store is a public institution and . . . cannot take part in political controversies; it cannot open to the young and adolescent of the city anything which, in their youth and inexperience, they might woefully misinterpret...