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Months went by. Nobody saw August Simolke. But finally last autumn, one of his sons-in-law read that the body of a man was lying unclaimed at the city morgue. He investigated. He hurried back, brought Jennie and others of the family. They identified the body instantly. There were two unmistakable red dots on his face, and the second finger of his left hand was twisted as it had always been...
...Turn. With its boom, the U.S. had high prices. Yet the notable event of the year was not that prices had scooted up to the highest peak of the postwar boom-as they had in midsummer-but that by autumn they had started to come down. U.S. businessmen who had been preaching to the world that production-and not rationing and controls-was the cure for inflation had finally shown the preaching to have the ring of economic gospel. The buyers' market swept in with old-fashioned price-cutting competition...
...With the autumn season over, Freshman crew candidates have switched over to the indoor tank at Newell Boathouse...
...Time, Gentlemen." From time to time a flurry of speculation ran through the watchers like autumn leaves in a gust. On Friday night there was a moment of letdown when Princess Elizabeth herself stepped out of the palace door and drove off with her husband in his Austin sedan. (They had a date to dine with Philip's cousin, Lady Brabourne, and practical Elizabeth saw no reason for breaking it.) By Sunday night 4,000 or more people in slouch hats, toppers, evening clothes, shawls and workmen's denim were clustered about the huge Victoria Memorial...
Quietly and with teamwork the Harvard soccer team has been winning games this fall. The harriers, without victory this autumn, are washed up for the year; the football family can still salvage its fortunes with a win over Yale; but the booters, after eight games against the best teams of the East, are assured of a .500 record no matter what happens in their last three contests...