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Fearful on the eve of his 96th birthday lest two front teeth would have to be extracted because he bit a cherry pit four years ago, John D. Rockefeller Sr. visited his dentist. Reassured to learn that his 19 teeth were all sound, he quietly celebrated his birthday on his 500-acre estate near Lakewood, N. J. Biggest Rockefeller birthday present was $5,000,000 in cash representing the face value of his insurance policies. The money was returned to him because he had outlived the actuarial tables, which do not go above...
...rule against off-campus demonstrations. *Beginning his annual summer shuttle from Ormond Beach, Fla. to Lakewood, N. J. last week, Mr. Rockefeller failed for the first time to speak or wave to station bystanders as attendants helped him up a specially-built platform to his private car. His 96th birthday falls on July...
...oppressive power of modern Babylon like his typical predecessor did the one of Old: to do which He is willing to run for President, if, Nominated in the coming Presidential Election.) since his birth Seventy years ago, at 745 Amsterdam Avenue; moved recently to 711 Amsterdam Avenue at 96th Street. Please direct mail to new Address...
...Corporal Robert Osman, U.S. A. was last year court-martialed in the Canal Zone for violating the 96th Article of War for "willfully and feloniously" communicating military secrets to persons not entitled to receive them (supposedly Communists). Cause of the trial was discovery of an undelivered letter allegedly sent by Osman to a girl in Brooklyn, a letter which contained a military plan of Fort Sherman. Result of the trial was that Corporal Osman was condemned to two years at hard labor, fined $10,000 (to be worked off at the rate of $500 a year). Last week...
...flyer in the service. Congress appropriated $1,000 to buy up his patent. But last week at Ft. Sam Houston, Major Ocker, oldest pilot in the Army in point of service, was summoned to appear before a court-martial. Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article of War). Major Clyde C. Johnston had examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly Field, after he recovered from a broken vertebra, and grounded him for weak eyesight. Pilot Ocker, no friend of Kelly Field's hard-boiled com mander, Lieut.-Colonel Henry B. Clagett, took his re-examination...