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...Plata, Md., a young Negro drove his stolen car to an outlying farm, entered the house under cover of night, edged carefully into a bed where Alton Davis was sleeping with his bride of two weeks. Undisturbed, Davis and wife slumbered on until morning...
...first time he told how he had thrown New York's fashionable Lake George colony into confusion 30 summers ago by means of a large, gleaming sea serpent. He confessed that he had fabricated the serpent to give his story-loving friend, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann, longtime publisher of the defunct Town Topics, "something to talk about." Said Artist Watrous: "I got a cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears...
...Alton Smahl was born in New York, in 1898. In 1921, he was graduated from Fordham Medical College, became an interne at Englewood, N. J. After a year of work for U. S. Public Health Service, Dr. Alton A. Smahl set up an office of his own in Manhattan, began practice as an otolaryngologist. He inserted the initial A. to make his name sound better. He married, became the father of a daughter, spent a year in Vienna doing post-graduate work...
...left by organs removed. As the patient's insides heal and connective tissues fill in the cavities, Dr. Coffey hauls out the wicks one by one. His method helps insure against peritonitis. Appendicitis. Mortality from appendicitis is 50% higher today than it was 15 years ago, deplored Professor Alton Ochsner of New Orleans. One person dies in the U. S. every 29 minutes from appendicitis. Before the age of 50 four times as many people die from appendicitis as die from cancer. Ages 10 to 30 are the appendicitis years, 70% of cases occurring in that range. Added...
...snatching August Luer, aged Alton, Ill. banker, St. Louis police and Federal agents tracked down and arrested one Percy Michael Fitzgerald, ex-convict and burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where...