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Louisville, Ky., Oct. 18--Federal agents tonight had their first definite clue to the direction of flight taken by Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., former insane asylum inmate sought as the kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll...
...Kanizsa, Hungary, the alarm went out that a naked lunatic was crawling through the fields beside a road, uttering low sounds. On signal police rushed the man, threw a blanket over his head, bore him off struggling to an ambulance. From beneath the blanket, as they drove toward an asylum, came a muffled but coherent voice. Timidly the prisoner explained that his clothes had been stolen while he was swimming, that he had promised to be home at dinner time, that he felt he should not break the engagement...
...tugged down small skyscrapers. It swept away wood-&-paper houses like rubbish. An hour later it was gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House. As Osaka citizens fled past the Iron Works toward higher ground, the pursuing water tried to drown...
Before one dawn last week Mrs. Amelia Toner, 27, lay alone with her unborn baby in a rented Brooklyn bedroom. Her Irish husband had deserted her. Her other four children were in a Catholic orphan asylum on Staten Island. No companion stood by for her impending travail...
Last week Nijinsky was in a Swiss insane asylum, Ida Rubinstein was aging in Paris, Léon Bakst was dead, but Michel Fokine was in Manhattan watching another Scheherazade which he had produced on ten days notice. Fokine's Scheherazade was the indoor sensation of Paris in 1910 and the outdoor sensation of New York in 1934. Jammed to capacity, Lewisohn Stadium seated 15,000, gave standing room to 2,000. Police reserves were called to handle a crowd of 10,000 who jostled outside the gates, were unable to get in. Quick to seize the advantages...